Gerry Canavan
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Another, also from Aaron: A Googler’s Guide to Finding ‘Gaddafi ‘ in the News.
gerrycanavan
March 27, 2011 at 4:58 pm
I believe the chart shows somewhere in excess of 100,000 variants of the spelling of GQKWADHAFFI*
^the one real and true spelling! (TM)
steve
March 27, 2011 at 8:54 pm
That might explain why two editors, working for the same would-be news organization, can’t decide on how to spell the name and end up spelling two ways on the same page.
http://terriblywrite.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/serving-up-a-buffet-of-errors/
Laura
March 28, 2011 at 7:58 am