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Last week, the family was traveling to Montreal but was initially unable to board their flight because one of his daughters had a problem with the spelling of her name on her ticket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Reed jokes that while he doesn't mind the odd spelling mistake "because it shows it was written by a human, not AI", attention to detail is really important so make sure it is grammatically correct.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
In Bucharest, where he arrived in 1945, Paul Antschel became Paul Celan, the new name an anagrammatic rebirth from the Romanian spelling of “Ancel.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The building features giant stone letters on the top spelling out part of a speech that Obama gave in 2015 in Selma, Alabama, the cradle of the civil rights movement.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
But in my head “okay” looked like this: O. K. Those letters stood for Outrageous Katastrophe, and I know it’s the wrong spelling, but it was the best I could do at that particular moment.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
The predictive text is supposed to learn your style and improve over time, but depending on the fixes you do or don’t accept, it can learn incorrect spellings in place of correct ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
The so-called invading force of my generation assimilated to the point where our kids are named Brandon and Ashley in all sorts of spellings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
And because Jefferson's original moniker was spelled as Megalonyx, any other subsequent spellings of the name, like some that utilize the -onix suffix, are incorrect.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
In the girl's list, last year's number one 'Sophia' fell into eighth place after the organisation changed the way they count to include different spellings.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2023
But the various spellings of even one name can reveal a strong disparity.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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