Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Contest for Worst Misspelling!

Submit the worst case of misspelling(s) that you can find at any website. Just add the quote and URL in a comment field below. We will be collecting examples along with URL's for verification -- so don't forget to paste in the link.

We will award a prize at the end of August, and if we get a great response we should make this a monthly contest.

Of course I am hopingto get enough embarrassing mistakes that we might also generate some spell checking business from it as well (crass commercialism). However it should also be a kick to read some samples, like it is to watch Jay Leno's "Monday Night Headlines."

Let's only collect English errors, as that is the only language that we spell check.

Note that we are not worrying about competitors using this as a lead source, as there is NO OTHER COMPANY that spell checks entire web domains and then has real, live, human editors previewing every mistake to rule out those annoying false-positives.

We also maintain custom dictionaries for each client as well, and we even have special features, like word and phrase searching to find all the locations of words or phrases that you need to find across your domain to replace when company execs make annoying changes -- like a corporate name change, for example.

I betetr pruuf this reelly well so this post dose not becume an entry.

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