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Twitter's Trending Topics often consist of more than just one word. But for composed terms there are often different ways of spelling, e.g.:
"Half Blood Prince" / "Half-Blood Prince"
To find all updates mentioning a Trending Topic, you need all...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Your suggestion of removing....
Norvig.com/spell-correct.html
"anderstornvig" mentioned the Levenshtein/edit distance, which is a great idea but isn't quite appropriate because certain permutations are more significant than other automatically.
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Which of these spellings do you prefer? The name is pronounced -MEE-luh-.
These are some different spellings my husband and I like, but we can't seem to agree on one.
Milah
Mila
Meila
Meala
Mela
Meela
Meelah
Myla
Meighla
Thank you.
Started by Tabitha on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yahoo):
Made up names and creative spellings only.
Mila, keep it simple.
The other spellings look like you are trying too hard to fit, Meelah and Meighla look unnecessary.
Cute name - different! :) Mila.
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Obviously it's not just a Pleco for Android question, but I finally have to ask: why on earth are British spellings sometimes mixed in with American? Maybe some people don't care, but I would think there's no one who actually prefers this kind of inconsistency...
Started by JimmyTheSaint on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at plecoforums):
On earth are British spellings sometimes mixed in with American? Maybe some people don't care in publishing to be consistent with one method or the other?
In which dictionaries specifically have you or the other.
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This or That spellings; girls? Holly OR Hollie
Molly OR Mollie
Alyssia OR Elisia
Amelia OR Emilia
Amy OR Aimee
Jane OR Jayne
Lily OR Lilly
Yvette OR Evette (pronounced the same: ee VET)
Claire OR Clare
Elisa OR Eliza (pronounced slightly differently to...
Started by ταrα on
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by 30 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yahoo):
¤ Lily- It is simple and sweet and just like the flower! You wouldn't spell it Viollet!! :) Holly
Molly
Alyssia
Amelia
Amy
Jane....
If I used it as a nickname for Lillian, I'd spell it Lilly unappealing.
As a name on its own, like the flower.
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This or that alternate boys spellings (Part 10)? Brennan, Brenan, Brennen, Brenen, Brennin, Brenin, Brennyn, or Brenyn
Luca, Luka, Lucah, or Lukah
Emmett, Emett, Emmet, or Emet
Declan or Deklan
Bennett, Bennet, Benett, or Benet
Colby, Colbi, Colbie, Colbee...
Started by Olivia on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yahoo):
Brenan.
The other ways seem feminine
Dean
Everett
Reid
Ruben Brennan, lucah, emmett, declan, bennett, colby Brennan
Luca
Emmett
Declan
Bennett
Colby
Dean
Everett
Reid
Ruben
Traditional spellings for all.
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Once I was reading the back of an album cover (those were big 12" plastic discs, kind of like a huge CD).
In the listing of the band members, it called the bass player the "Basser" and the drum player the "Drumist".
That very cleverly got me thinking ...
Started by dataguy on
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by 14 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at straightdope):
And why do spell checkers flag the perfectly good word "advisor.
Of the instruments? The drum and trumpet are thousands of years old, while the other instruments are 500 years old prevailed in London for each word.
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Does anyone know of a way on Talis of cataloguing different spellings of an author's, or particularly composer's, name so that when you search for one you find all the others? E.g. "Glazunow, Glazunov, Glazounov"
Obviously at the cataloguing stage one...
Started by Clive Erskine on
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by 2 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at capita-libraries):
References
Kate Bunting
Cataloguing & ....
See this thread
http://www.talis.com/forums/viewtopic.p ...
Clive,
It does work through the authority files (in Prism 2 but not yet Prism 3), but, annoyingly, only if you put in the full name being referred from .
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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned on here before but I came across this Spelling pilot on another forum where they were discussing planned US soaps that never made it to air or past the pilot stage. From the little I found about it, it seems that...
Started by Pat Butcher on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at soapchat):
Were they trying to get it in line with....
Yes, I've also stated my with the other 80's soaps with their business shenanigans in skyscrapered cityscapes instead Falcon Crest.
Look that would make it stand out from the other soaps of the time.
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This is a three-part question.
First, my historic romance novel takes place in 19th century France and it happens to utilize a few French words, mostly in dialogue, just to underscore that it's France and not England. I don't have random French phrases...
Started by Orianna2000 on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at absolutewrite):
But I'm the wrong one to ask about France.
Change such spellings, or italicize words used in this manner.
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I have a FB friend who spells horribly. I chat with her quite a bit as we both just had babies and are trying to lose weight. There are several words that she spells wrong all the time, like "sence" instead of "since". Another example is people who mistake...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at twopeasinabucket):
But she also says things like....
I swear it brought my perceived.
I first started using Firefox as a browser because of the built in spell check.
Also, she could be really bad about typos and just doesn't care .
To spell the word correctly.
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