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Microsoft Word will autocorrect to referrer.
Thanks for the fun trivia question.
I did a search for childrens and the big G corrcted me to children's. Grrr dam know it all.
If you call someone a "looser" on the Internet, you sir are the loser.
That isn't the most common, but it's my favorite.
Your instead of you're for you are. There instead of their when referring to someone. To instead of too when you mean also. Its when you mean it's as in it is and visa versa.
BTW, I think the reason why you see referer instead of referrer is because the header variable is HTTP_REFERER.
US UK spellings, not typos as such just variations.
Mack.
"Sexes", because people tend to spell it backwards.
They call it a "play on words" but that's face-saving for misspelling in the first place:
[google.com...]
I had a website online for months with a login form containing the term "Click here for a password reindeer".
Then there was that Chinese restaurant with an online menu offering "Automatic Crispy Duck".
What's wrong with "alright"?
It's not even a real word and it gets 16,300,000 results in G. Drives me nuts!
advise as opposed to advice and the other way around
Practise and practice too!
There are no apostrophes there! Apostrophes are used for possessives—like "He stepped on the cat's tail." or "The car's tailpipe fell off." But not for plurals! Never for plurals!
I swear, some people must feel compelled to put apostrophes on any word that has an "s" at the ending: See how great thi's look's? Yeah, I love them apostrophe's!
"Click here for a password reindeer"
Shouldn't that be "Click here for a password, reindeer?"
And, go to your local library and check out a book called "Eats, Shoots, & Leaves." It's very good!
Half the queries for Australia come up 'Austrailia'.
That grates on me even though I'm in California. -Larry
I think colocated is correct. However, Google has results for both spellings and does not offer to auto-correct the spelling as it often does.
My personal pet peeve is the inappropriate use of apostrophes. "There are too many cat's." "The car's were going too fast."
I hate when People randomly Capitalize Words. There is no Reason to do so, yet I See it Daily.
Also, I'd say a common error is 'who' when it should be 'whom', since most people don't know that rule. Also, you gotta love when someone tries to correct your "grammer". ;-)
One of my favorites is when somebody feigning education and smarts
uses 'whom' instead of who, even as the subject (not the object) of a phrase.
Transparency indeed. They'd be safer forgetting the word 'whom' exists. -Larry
won't be long before it's considered correct English.
That's a goodie. It will pass the spell-checker every time.
That's how I spot a spell-checker BTW. The wrong words spelled perfectly. -Larry
