Friday, October 31, 2003

Happy Halloween!

Just for the holiday the common misspellings are:

helloween [substitution] - This is also a band name which will increase the searches for this term.

haloween [omission] - The double letter is less common in some foreign languages, increasing the number of searches. Search results will also bring up more foreign language websites.

hallowen [omission] - double letter

hallowee [omission] - last letter

alloween [omission] - first letter

hallween [omission]

Thursday, October 30, 2003

What are the types of errors that can occur?

1. Error by addition: recipies instead of recipes
2. Error by omission: recpes instead of recipes
3. Error by substitution: resipes instead of recipes
4. Error by transposition: reicpes instead of recipes


Multiple errors consisting of a combination of the 4 error types.
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