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  2. The Game of Love (Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders song)

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    "The Game of Love" is a 1964 song by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, first released as a single from the band's titular album in January 1965 in the United Kingdom, followed by the United States one month later as "Game of Love". The song reached Number 2 on the

  3. Spell checker - Wikipedia

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    Spell checkers can use approximate string matching algorithms such as Levenshtein distance to find correct spellings of misspelled words. [1] An alternative type of spell checker uses solely statistical information, such as n-grams, to recognize errors instead of correctly-spelled words. This approach usually requires a lot of effort to obtain ...

  4. Honorific nicknames in popular music - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] In the 1930s and 1940s, as jazz and swing music were gaining popularity, it was the more commercially successful white artists Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman who became known as "the King of Jazz" and "the King of Swing" respectively, despite there being more highly regarded contemporary African-American artists.

  5. Autocorrection - Wikipedia

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    Autocorrect in Windows 10, correcting the word "mispelled" to "misspelled".. Autocorrection, also known as text replacement, replace-as-you-type, text expander or simply autocorrect, is an automatic data validation function commonly found in word processors and text editing interfaces for smartphones and tablet computers.

  6. Oprah wasn't always Oprah: Her birth name revealed - AOL

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    Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...

  7. List of musician and band name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Whenever people asked if he was in a band, he would tell them it was called Smashing Pumpkins for a laugh. The name stuck after the band formed, despite dissension from fellow band members. Snow – Darren O'Brien's nickname given to him because he was one of the only white people in an ethnically diverse neighbourhood in Canada.

  8. Taylor Swift 'believes in a thing called love' in new Apple ...

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    Another day, another Taylor Swift Apple music commercial. SEE ALSO: Taylor Swift's new style will make you do a double-take The Princess of Pop, Taylor Swift, released yet another Apple Music ...

  9. Spelling - Wikipedia

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    These are commonly called "misspellings". A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelled word of the same language at all (such as "leik" for "like") or a correct spelling of another word (such as writing "here" when one means "hear", or "no" when one means "know").