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.

And what about Genealogist - Geneologist :) "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. >