Forum:SH Archive/The Great Typo Hunt

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[Thread begun by Enochf 19:36, 13 October 2006 (UTC)]

I don't know how many others do this, but the search feature is great for finding and eliminating typos. I've eliminated a handful, but a lot still remain.

Here's the idea. I'll list a typographical error, anybody can add to the list, and as soon as no articles contain that particular typo, it gets crossed out. Maybe this thread will die out in an hour, or maybe not. But as a suggestion, if you do find a typo, don't just fix it. Look to see if there are other instances, and if there are too many to fix, add it to the Hunt, and maybe other contributors can fix it in their spare time.

I guess we can also include the non-preferred British spellings here.

Typo List

 * 1) abandonned
 * 2) abilty
 * 3) accidentaly
 * 4) accidently
 * 5) accomodate
 * 6) accomodation
 * 7) accomodations
 * 8) accross
 * 9) activites
 * 10) adherance
 * 11) aggresive
 * 12) agression
 * 13) agressive
 * 14) agressively
 * 15) alledged
 * 16) althought
 * 17) aparatus
 * 18) appearence
 * 19) appearences
 * 20) aquire
 * 21) aquired
 * 22) artifical
 * 23) artillary
 * 24) assasain
 * 25) assasination
 * 26) assasinating
 * 27) assasinated
 * 28) assasinate
 * 29) assasins
 * 30) assassain
 * 31) assassaination
 * 32) assualt
 * 33) attemped
 * 34) auxillary
 * 35) becuase
 * 36) beleive
 * 37) beleived
 * 38) belived
 * 39) beseiged
 * 40) bizzare
 * 41) breif
 * 42) charasmatic
 * 43) cheif
 * 44) civillian
 * 45) civillians
 * 46) comissioned
 * 47) comitted
 * 48) commited
 * 49) completly
 * 50) concieve
 * 51) concieved
 * 52) conjuction
 * 53) conotations
 * 54) continous
 * 55) controled
 * 56) controling
 * 57) cought (caught)
 * 58) curiousity
 * 59) decieve
 * 60) decieved
 * 61) definately
 * 62) dependant
 * 63) destory (destroy)
 * 64) devestated
 * 65) devestating
 * 66) devestation
 * 67) diarmed (disarmed)
 * 68) duelled
 * 69) duelling (can be spelled with 2 Ls)
 * 70) emited
 * 71) enroute
 * 72) equiped
 * 73) excercise
 * 74) excercises
 * 75) faught
 * 76) feild
 * 77) fledgeling (fledgling)
 * 78) forsaw (foresaw)
 * 79) forsee (foresee)
 * 80) forseen (foreseen)
 * 81) inaccessable
 * 82) indefinately  (indefinitely)
 * 83) infomation
 * 84) iniative
 * 85) manuever
 * 86) manueverability (maneuverability)
 * 87) manueverable
 * 88) manuevers
 * 89) manuevrability
 * 90) manuver
 * 91) manuverability (maneuverability)
 * 92) martialled (i.e., court-martialed)
 * 93) milita (militia)
 * 94) missle (missile)
 * 95) missles (missiles)
 * 96) moreso
 * 97) noteable
 * 98) occured
 * 99) occurence
 * 100) occurences
 * 101) occuring
 * 102) paticular
 * 103) personel
 * 104) persue (pursue)
 * 105) persued (pursued)
 * 106) persuing (pursuing)
 * 107) posessed
 * 108) posesses
 * 109) posession
 * 110) posessions
 * 111) possesed
 * 112) possesion
 * 113) possesions
 * 114) prefered
 * 115) preperation
 * 116) prescence
 * 117) publically
 * 118) recieve
 * 119) recieved
 * 120) reciever
 * 121) recievers
 * 122) recieving
 * 123) reconnaisance
 * 124) refered
 * 125) refering
 * 126) reponse
 * 127) resistence
 * 128) sabatoge
 * 129) sabatoged
 * 130) seige (one instance left--please do not change)
 * 131) seiges
 * 132) seperate
 * 133) seperated
 * 134) seperates
 * 135) seperating
 * 136) seperation
 * 137) seperatist  "seperatist" is a redirect, so it can be hard to search, this link works
 * 138) seperatists
 * 139) sieze
 * 140) siezed
 * 141) siezing
 * 142) similiar
 * 143) solider (check context to make sure "soldier" is intended)
 * 144) soliders
 * 145) speach
 * 146) submited
 * 147) succeded
 * 148) succes
 * 149) suceed
 * 150) sucess
 * 151) sufferred
 * 152) sufficent
 * 153) sufficently
 * 154) supress (suppress)
 * 155) suprise
 * 156) suprised
 * 157) surveillence
 * 158) tendancies
 * 159) tendancy
 * 160) targetted
 * 161) targetting
 * 162) terrorising
 * 163) theif
 * 164) theives
 * 165) themself
 * 166) threatend
 * 167) throught
 * 168) transfered
 * 169) transfering
 * 170) transmited
 * 171) transporation
 * 172) travelled
 * 173) travelling
 * 174) uknown
 * 175) unfortunatly
 * 176) unkown
 * 177) unoffical
 * 178) usally
 * 179) vaccum
 * 180) villian
 * 181) weaponary
 * 182) weilded
 * 183) weilding
 * 184) withdrawl

Comments

 * You might want to check List of common misspellings too. Have fun. :-P --  I need a name  ( Complain here ) 19:04, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I didn't find feild anywhere, so I deleted it. Chack Jadson 19:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * There's one result for seige but don't delete it because it was done on purpose. Chack Jadson 21:24, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I made some progress on "seperate", but that is one heck of a widespread typo. Havac 07:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I've fixed the articles with 'seperate' now, with the exception of Ship classification because it's protected. --  I need a name  ( Complain here ) 20:38, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S. valid point: "duelled"/"duelling" are not incorrect. My spell-check hiccoughs at them, and yours probably does too, but you'll find the alternative in the dictionary as acceptable; however, the one L is listed first as preferred. Same with the "travel" variations. The spelling "Traveller," especially is very common in titles and shouldn't be changed.
 * I thought my search showed a title with Duelling but maybe it wasn't media title. Thanks for getting those. -Fnlayson 00:30, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Those spellings are archaic. The one-l form is now standard and should be used. Havac 02:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)