typo in `eurodist'
This makes it pretty clear which are the meaningful ones:
g <- structure(c(50700000, 75200, 573, 836, 1020, 349, 1850, 530,
352, 576, 589, 618, 349, 652), .Names = c("Gibraltar", "Gibralta",
"Gibraltr", "Gibralar", "Gibratar", "Gibrltar", "Gibaltar", "Giraltar",
"Gbraltar", "ibralter", "Gibralatar", "Gibrlatar", "Gibrltar",
"Gobraltar"))
plot(lm(log(g) ~ 1), which = 2)
On 12/8/05, Ted Harding <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
On 08-Dec-05 Martin Maechler wrote:
"Torsten" == Torsten Hothorn <torsten at hothorn.de>
on Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:51:57 +0100 (CET) writes:
Torsten> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> I've often wondered about that.
Torsten> and the copy editor did too :-)
>> I've presumed that the names were
>> deliberate, so have you checked the stated source? It's not
>> readily available to me (as one would expect in Oxford)?
Torsten> our library doesn't seems to have a copy of `The
Torsten> Cambridge Encyclopaedia', so I can't check
Torsten> either. Google has 74.900 hits for `Gibralta'
Torsten> (more than one would expect for a typo, I think)
Torsten> and 57.700.000 for `Gibraltar'.
Torsten> So maybe both spellings are in use.
Well, do you expect web authors to have a much lower rate of
typos than 1:770 ?
My limited experience on "google voting for spelling correction"
has rather lowered my expectation on webauthors' education in
orthography...
Martin
Hmmm ... Using my Google's "Results ... of about xxx": Gibraltar 50,700,000 Gibralta 75,200 Gibraltr 573 Gibralar 836 Gibratar 1,020 Gibrltar 349 Gibaltar 1,850 Giraltar 530 Gbraltar 352 ibralter 576 I'm not proposing to get exhaustive about this, but a few further experiments suggest that other specific typos are typically O(500) in frequency: Gibralatar 589 Gibrlatar 618 Gibrltar 349 Gobraltar 652 So -- if anyone can find a typo of "Gibraltar" which googles to more than 5000 hits (excepting "Gibralta")? Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Dec-05 Time: 18:58:04 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
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