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  2. Satiric misspelling - Wikipedia

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    2008 protest against the Church of Scientology, spelling the organization's name with a dollar sign instead of an "S". A satiric misspelling is an intentional misspelling of a word, phrase or name for a rhetorical purpose.

  3. Sensational spelling - Wikipedia

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    Weet-Bix branding. Sensational spellings are common in advertising [1] and product placement. In particular, brand names [1] such as Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (crispy cream), Weet-Bix (wheat, with bix being derived from biscuits), Blu-ray (blue), Kellogg's Froot Loops (fruit) or Hasbro's Playskool (school) may use unexpected spellings to draw attention to or trademark an otherwise common word.

  4. List of musician and band name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Coldplay – The band were called "Starfish" originally and a friend's group was called "Coldplay". When they did not want the name anymore, "Starfish" asked if they could use it instead. The original Coldplay took the name from a book of collected poems called Child's Reflections: Cold Play. [99] Commodores – Taken at random from a ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. You Might Be Surprised How These '60s Bands Got Their Names - AOL

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    2. The Doors. There are many people out there who think that rock musicians are nothing more than drunk, overpaid illiterates. Nothing could be further from the truth, as the Doors of "Light My ...

  8. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/Grammar and ...

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    daily regimen) (darker than [comparative]) (DC, direct current) (de rigueur) death knell (deciding how) (deep-seated) (kelvins) (depending on) (depending on whom you)

  9. Commonly misspelled English words - Wikipedia

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    The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists [4] [10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 [3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word. Some words are followed by examples of misspellings: