[ExI] most common error: was RE: thought controled Third arm, (was EPOC EEG headset)
BillK
pharos at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 19:58:36 UTC 2010
On 1/25/10, spike wrote:
> A comment here caused me to ask a completely unrelated question: in the age
> of software spell checkers and grammar checkers, what is the most common
> spelling error?
>
> It would need to be an error that spelled a different word, and the new word
> would need to make a grammatically correct sentence. Consider the example:
>
> >...So it could be a big trade off depending what you loose.
>
> I think this might be the most common modern spelling error, since the word
> loose, ordinarily an adjective, can also be a verb. So the above sentence
> would be grammatically correct.
>
>
> So what is the most common modern spelling error?
>
>
Surely it must be affect / effect? At least on the Exi list. ;)
BillK
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