From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Thu Dec  8 09:00:27 2005
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:00:27 +0100
Subject: [Rd] typo in `eurodist'
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>>>>> "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 Cambridge
    Torsten> Encyclopaedia', so I can't check either. Google has 74.900 hits for
    Torsten> `Gibralta' (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



[Rd] typo in `eurodist'
Martin Maechler