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...Travel agents working for the military routinely misspell emails. Staff sending emails between their own accounts are also a problem....
...It misspells “Otto Ralff” as a previous owner. It locates him incorrectly in Munich....
...It also manages to misspell the Irish Taoiseach's name....
...However, that is no excuse to misspell the Christian name of the author of The Alexandria Quartet, which was, of course, Lawrence. Rupert Wright Gabian, France...
...They misspell words, they write about things obliquely… they have ways of communicating even within the parameters. For example, they almost write in code....
...In 1998, I wrote a book in which a character working for the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant in Oregon is located using a “misspellcheck” programme that learnt how users misspell words....
...to suffer a heart attack and die, gets arrested several times, falls into a coma after eating a macadamia nut, becomes obsessed with a bit of red plastic after gobbling an ecstasy pill, falls in love, misspells...
...What Todd does is monitor your emails and memos and documents, and in so doing learns about you – the words you tend to misspell; if you’re in the mood for playing Scrabble; your friends’ birthdays....
...At the advanced end, this shades into artificial intelligence of the kind that, for example, intuits what you meant to search for even when you misspell the key words; can translate speech into another language...
...But, as Crystal points out, electronic spellcheckers are less helpful when you misspell a word in such a way as to spell another, as in a poem by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H....
...In 1899, Picasso was a young outsider from the uncouth south, with one blurred magazine reproduction to his name (which the editors had managed to misspell)....
...It was sent from a fax machine at Intel’s offices in Santa Clara, California, to one in Galleon’s offices in New York, according to the California document, which misspells her last name as “Kahn”....
...“It’s maybe the last single-syllable domain that is self-evident, highly recognisable and absurdly hard to misspell, no matter what language you say it in....
...The Eye mentions him often and deliberately misspells his name – putting an F rather than an R in Ruck. He asked if they would do this less often....
...On the only two occasions he mentions Vanity Fair he misspells the name of the heroine, Becky Sharp. It does not inspire agreement with his dismissive remarks on Thackeray....
...Together these men hit upon a way of monetising those times people misspell a web address or try to navigate to a page that doesn’t load....
...contemporary clothes, Dembélé’s hair worn in corn rows, and at one point a photographer character advises his subject on striking an assured pose, “Imagine you’re Sarkozy [which the surtitles, amazingly, misspell...
...So, make sure you spell “misspell” correctly and don’t misspell “misspell” as “mispell”, “mis-spell” or “miss-spell”, or misspell “misspelt” as “mispelt”, “mis-spelt” or “miss-spelt”.)...
...His latest acquisition is 1 VON, which he bought 18 months ago for £12,500, “because I couldn’t find 1 VAN and it was the next best thing, as some people misspell my name that way on Christmas cards.”...
...Chrysalis would not be the first to misspell Vodafone, of course, but perhaps next year’s report should be given the once over by Helen Keays, the Chrysalis non-executive director who used to sit on the...
...And never accept an invitation that misspells your name....
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