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Rovark 
"Luck-pushing, rule-bending, chance-taking reviewer"
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 Posted - 11/27/2006 : 20:38:58
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Well done Sean for spotting the deliberate spelling mistake.  
Despite the fact it's been on site for over 3 years, is in the top 100 and has been the nub of discussions previously, no-one has ever noticed I misspelled a word.
Can you see what it is yet ?? (cue Rolf Harris "hee hoo haa" noises)
Ooops
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 12/14/2006 : 11:16:34
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Rovark
"Luck-pushing, rule-bending, chance-taking reviewer"
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Posted - 04/01/2007 : 20:36:19
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My review here mixspelled
impersonates
Can it be corrected without my having to edit it?
Thanks to LadyMeerkat for noticing  |
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benj clews 
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Posted - 04/01/2007 : 22:42:44
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Originally posted by Rovark
My review here mixspelled
impersonates
Done.
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Shiv 
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 04/02/2007 : 05:03:17
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
This may be a colourful subject, and whilst I admire your valour in all candour I feel we have savoured it long enogh, ploughing in the same furrow, so do me a favour and do not belabour the point any fourther before we start to harbour dobts about our sanity and turn to liquor.
After all, this could go on for hors and hors.
 But...
...sorry to keep this going but wanted to make the point that many two syllable word spellings with -our at the end come from French -eur. There was a period where the French royal court ruled England. At that time they would have been said with French pronunciation. Over time the words assimiliated with the English around London and the pronunciation changed.
While it is true that phonemically the word 'favo(u)r' sounds more like 'feyvuh', the American favor is closer in pronunciation than c.f. hour, our, flour, dour, sour etc. etc. This -our ending on monosyllabic words is from Germanic sources.
Funnily enough the Latin word, which is the root of all variations, was 'favor'.
Personally I find that most American spelling changes are logical and that they are simply eroding archaic spellings that no longer sound how they look, or can be written more logically. Program (instead of programme) is a good example.
I have never worked out why spelling upsets people so much. Spelling is about standardisation and to assist communication. However, Shakespeare's inconsistent spelling doesn't seem to have placed him at the bottom of the class. Spelling a word favour or favor doesn't cause misunderstandings...just discussions such as these |
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Shiv
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 04/02/2007 : 05:11:55
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Originally posted by Rovark
Well done Sean for spotting the deliberate spelling mistake.
Despite the fact it's been on site for over 3 years, is in the top 100 and has been the nub of discussions previously, no-one has ever noticed I misspelled a word.
Can you see what it is yet ?? (cue Rolf Harris "hee hoo haa" noises)
Ooops
I will pseudo-vote for this now prior to the spelling being fixed
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Shiv
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 04/02/2007 : 06:14:37
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| John Cleese tackles American spelling in his Letter to America |
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thefoxboy 
"Four your eyes only."
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 02:04:53
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 07:50:00
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Originally posted by Tori
Here's a question...if the MERPs notice a spelling mistake do they have the ability/permission to change it?
What a great question! I once had a MERP change a typo of mine, but since then a couple of mixspellings have slipped through.  I'd be MORE than happy to be corrected -- can I be the only one who's reported my own spelling error only to have my fwfr sit for months back in the pending pile?
It might be a tough call, though, since some mixspells are deliberate to make a point/pun ... so there would need to be some kind of discretion. I guess for safety, if you submit a delib error you can always note that in the explanation bit.
What does anyone else think?
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 09:15:43
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
can I be the only one who's reported my own spelling error only to have my fwfr sit for months back in the pending pile?
If you used the Report button instead of resubmitting, this would not happen.
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I guess for safety, if you submit a delib error you can always note that in the explanation bit.
Yup, I don't like having to do this, but do do so from time to time, e.g. recently with antidiluvian. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 12/11/2009 : 11:50:24
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| The accent on the first e in melee here has come out wrong (at least to my view). I submitted it correctly, as I copied and pasted it from Wikipedia. I can see an e with a tail, which is a Polish character. Can anyone else see an e with the proper circumflex? |
Edited by - Demisemicenturian on 12/11/2009 11:53:08 |
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 12/11/2009 : 14:33:08
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 12/12/2009 : 02:28:34
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| Yep, I've checked on my own computer now (which I don't mainly use as the keyboard is faulty) and it looks O.K. on that too. It obviously must depend on the language settings. So long as it looks all right on English-language computers then that will do. It's annoying that such things can vary though. How does it look correct on Wikipedia? Does that site's language settings override the computer's? (If so, could the same be applied here somehow?) |
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Larry 
"Larry's time / sat merrily"
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Posted - 03/26/2010 : 12:14:15
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A good friend pointed out that I misspelled margarine in my review for A Substitute for Butter.
Can you fix it, benj or somebody? |
Edited by - Larry on 03/29/2010 11:30:09 |
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Reviews that are mixspelled.
