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A misspelling in English might be made by someone used to a different spelling in another language; for example, "address" is translated "adresse" in French and German. Many Spanish words are similar or identical to English words, but with an "n" inserted, or replacing an "m", leading to errors: "inmigrant" from " inmigrante ", "cementery" from ...
Tabletop 04:24, 13 April 2016 (UTC) Suggested title change: "Misspelt words with more than one plausible corrections". Tabletop 04:48, 13 April 2016 (UTC) Super, Tabletop! Those are all very good examples. We'll probably end up using one or two of those as the example.
A misspelling should occur in Wikipedia at least once a year to be considered "common" and therefore have a place in this list. If you know a certain misspelling has not occurred in the past year, you should delete it from the list to reduce clutter and make the lists easier to use.
misspelling (click for Wikipedia search); (correct spelling) To add an entry to the list, insert a new search entry using the {{search link}} template with the correct spelling in parentheses after the link.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
In the same way that "The examiner had looked at the paper" and "The examiner looked at the paper" are correct in different circumstances, "had had" is correct in different circumstances to "had". "Had had" is comparable to "had looked" except the verb "to look" is replaced with the verb "to have". Indraneelan 12:35, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Leon Bennett/WireImage Tori Spelling is ready to set the record straight about the headlines surrounding her life in a brand-new podcast titled “misSPELLING.” “In a town where lines are ...
misspelling (click for Wikipedia search); (correct spelling) To add an entry to the list, insert a new search entry using the {{search link}} template with the correct spelling in parentheses after the link.