On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, SkyNet News wrote: >And what about Genealogist - Geneologist :) Just as long as it's not a Geologist, unless of course, one is searching for a relative with rocks in his head! :-) >"Charles Sullivan" <cwsulliv@triad.rr.com> wrote in message >news:pan.2002.04.23.15.01.14.976492.13387@triad.rr.com... >> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:45:09 -0400, Don Nickell wrote: >> >> > "Barbara A. Brown" wrote: >> >> >> >> Don Nickell wrote: >> >> > >> >> > I checked the Internet for "independant city" and came up with a lot >> >> > of them. >> >> >> >> and how many hits for the correct spelling "independent city" ? <g> >> > >> > What's in a name? Potatoe, potato; programmer, programer. ;-P >> >> One newsgroup poster complained he couldn't find anything at all on the >> web when he ran a search for the Irish "POTATOE FAMEN". :-) >> >> Schools for the most part place very little emphasis on correct spelling >> nowadays. Just as we usually check for alternate/misspelled surnames in >> census and other records, it's often worthwhile to run web searches with >> common word misspellings in addition to the correct spellings. Perhaps web >> search engines will one day be smart enough to do this automatically.