From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Thu Dec  8 21:20:30 2005
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:20:30 -0500
Subject: [Rd] typo in `eurodist'
In-Reply-To: <439893CA.70809@acm.org>
References: <XFMail.051208185807.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
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Yet the methodology of my prior post seems to pick out the
correct one:

a <- c(Amateur = 52300000,
Amature = 2800000,
Amatuer = 2660000,
Ameteur = 619000,
Ameture = 941000,
Ametuer = 574000)
plot(lm(log(a) ~ 1), which = 2)


On 12/8/05, Tony Plate <tplate at acm.org> wrote:
> I would be wary of taking frequency of misspelling as an indication of
> "correctness".
>
> Witness the following Google counts:
>
> Amateur (correct): 52,300,000
> Amature: 2,800,000
> Amatuer: 2,660,000
> Ameteur: 619,000
> Ameture: 941,000
> Ametuer: 574,000
>
> Here's a common misspelling at > %10
>
> Collectible (correct): 26,900,000
> Collectable: 4,140,000
>
> More targets at
> http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html
>
> (BTW, one can find a list of "commonly misspelt wods" using Google :-)
>
> -- Tony Plate
>
> (Ted Harding) wrote:
> > On 08-Dec-05 Martin Maechler wrote:
> >
> >>>>>>>"Torsten" == Torsten Hothorn <torsten at hothorn.de>
> >>>>>>>    on Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:51:57 +0100 (CET) writes:
> >>
> >>    Torsten> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >>    >> I've often wondered about that.
> >>    Torsten> and the copy editor did too :-)
> >>
> >>    >> I've presumed that the names were
> >>    >> deliberate, so have you checked the stated source?  It's not
> >>    >> readily available to me (as one would expect in Oxford)?
> >>
> >>    Torsten> our library doesn't seems to have a copy of `The
> >>    Torsten> Cambridge Encyclopaedia', so I can't check
> >>    Torsten> either. Google has 74.900 hits for `Gibralta'
> >>    Torsten> (more than one would expect for a typo, I think)
> >>    Torsten> and 57.700.000 for `Gibraltar'.
> >>
> >>    Torsten> So maybe both spellings are in use.
> >>
> >>Well,  do you expect web authors to have a much lower rate of
> >>typos than 1:770 ?
> >>My limited experience on "google voting for spelling correction"
> >>has rather lowered my expectation on webauthors' education in
> >>orthography...
> >>
> >>Martin
> >
> >
> > Hmmm ... Using my Google's "Results ... of about xxx":
> >
> >
> >   Gibraltar 50,700,000
> >   Gibralta      75,200
> >   Gibraltr         573
> >   Gibralar         836
> >   Gibratar       1,020
> >   Gibrltar         349
> >   Gibaltar       1,850
> >   Giraltar         530
> >   Gbraltar         352
> >   ibralter         576
> >
> > I'm not proposing to get exhaustive about this, but a few further
> > experiments suggest that other specific typos are typically O(500)
> > in frequency:
> >
> >   Gibralatar   589
> >   Gibrlatar    618
> >   Gibrltar     349
> >   Gobraltar    652
> >
> >
> > So -- if anyone can find a typo of "Gibraltar" which googles to
> > more than 5000 hits (excepting "Gibralta")?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Ted.
> >
> >
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> > Date: 08-Dec-05                                       Time: 18:58:04
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[Rd] typo in `eurodist'
Gabor Grothendieck