From spencer.graves at pdf.com  Thu Dec  8 18:28:59 2005
From: spencer.graves at pdf.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:28:59 -0800
Subject: [Rd] typo in `eurodist'
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	  I'm with Martin:  When I get the same number of hits for two 
spellings, I believe that both are acceptable.  When I get substantially 
different numbers of hits, I generally go with the one with the most 
hits -- unless the different spellings carry different meanings, of 
course.
	
	  Example:  "gage" vs. "gauge" vs. "guage":  24e6 vs. 32e6 vs 3e6.  The 
last is a typo.  The first has a special meaning, though "gauge" is 
sometimes used in that context.  However, when discussing repeatability 
and reproducibility, I prefer "gage", because it's more restrictive and 
therefore seems clearer to me.

	  spencer graves

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 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
> 
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[Rd] typo in `eurodist'
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