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Just freewheeling on mistakes and etymology

October 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Four pillars

A few days ago, I posted something about The Becuase Effect (sic), referring people to Graham Barrow’s question in the Feedback column of the New Scientist. Graham was asking about the frequency of common misspellings, particularly typos, and in a comment on my post he mused about the way such words enter language, whether “becuase” [...]

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