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Americans used to say "alumin-ium" like the British, but the chemist who named the element couldn't make up his mind on how to spell it. This led to Webster's Dictionary printing it as "alumin-um", eventually causing American chemists to adopt the 'incorrect' spelling.
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When a phrase or word is slowly deteriorated over time due to pronunciation, and ends up being said or spelled incorrectly in a widely accepted way (such as, "all intensive purposes" vs "all intents and purposes") it is called an "eggcorn"
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The correct spelling of "whoa" is w-h-o-a. Incorrect spellings such as "woah" and "whoah" are recent misspellings largely unique to the age of the Internet
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Oprah Winfrey's real name is "Orpah," but it was spelled incorrectly so many times that she now just goes by "Oprah"
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The Cupertino effect is when a spell checker suggests incorrect words to replace misspelled words or words not in its dictionary.
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I've spelled the word Hamster wrong my entire life, although there is a song titled with my incorrect spelling - "The Hampsterdance Song" by Hampton and the Hampsters
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OK comes from ‘oll korrect’, a deliberately misspelled writing of ‘all correct’ It was popularised in Boston newspapers around the 1840s when it was fashionable to go around spelling things incorrectly for humorous effect.
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Someone spent time creating a bot on Reddit that calls you out if you spell "Sneak Peek" incorrectly... he's quite a busy bot!
