Mispronunciations, typos, et al.
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So how do your favorite users mispronounce, misspell, and mistype things?
My users are university people... faculty and undergrads cannot get their heads around the following words, but the grads, staff, and international students can. It makes you wonder who learned to read before college, vs. who got in to the university for money reasons.
My favorite examples...
Correct: Symantec
Incorrect: systematic, simon tech, schematic, semantic.
Correct: https://exchange.whatever.edu
Incorrect: http://sexchange.whatever.edu
Correct: Ad-aware
Incorrect: Adware
Correct: Microsoft
Incorrect: Microsock (this was a typo)
My users are university people... faculty and undergrads cannot get their heads around the following words, but the grads, staff, and international students can. It makes you wonder who learned to read before college, vs. who got in to the university for money reasons.
My favorite examples...
Correct: Symantec
Incorrect: systematic, simon tech, schematic, semantic.
Correct: https://exchange.whatever.edu
Incorrect: http://sexchange.whatever.edu
Correct: Ad-aware
Incorrect: Adware
Correct: Microsoft
Incorrect: Microsock (this was a typo)
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