Spelling#Misspellings

A spelling error (also called false case) denotes a spelling of a word or punctuation mark that is false, according to the generally accepted spelling. There are also in the written language punctuation errors, grammatical errors, style errors and typos.

The two main causes of misspellings are inattention (in the case of typewritten texts is then called a typo) and ignorance of the correct spelling, such as dyslexia.

Since the orthography of a language can learn to change (example: German spelling ), must in some cases when assessing whether a spelling error or not, the date of the text to be taken into consideration.

In quotations, it is common spellings that look after a tip or typographical errors, but in fact so are the original to let uncorrected and with sic or sic! (lat. so ) to be marked.

Spelling errors in German language

With the reform of German orthography of 1996, the German orthography should be simplified and the rules are unified. Due to the frequent lack of knowledge of the new rules, however, some new spelling errors arose. Probably the most common is the faulty replacement of ß by ss after a long vowel or diphthong ( for example, " * Street ", " greeting * " and "* except" - correctly, it is still called " road ", " greeting " and " except "except in Switzerland and in Versalschrift where still ss instead of ß is provided ).

Overrides that are incorrect according to both the old and the new orthography, can be classified according to probable causes into the following groups:

In some cases unite several aspects, to * project the wrong derivation and the textualization of the centralization of unstressed [i ] to [ ə ].

Other common misspellings are misplaced apostrophes ( ' Deppenapostroph " ) and missing hyphens or through couplings ( " Depp blank ").

Spell check in computer programs

In most cases, caused by a misspelling of a word that does not exist in this notation. Such spelling errors can be found automatically in computers with relatively simple means by a spell check program compares each word of a text with a built-in dictionary. Some spelling errors with this method, however, can not be found, namely, when taken in isolation, incorrect spelling is a valid word in the dictionary. An example could be with Währe mostly would be meant by the word Währe however is a valid inflection of the word are. Also could be achieved through pure word Comparing the relative pronoun that and the conjunction not tell them apart that.

Other words are marked by such programs as faulty, even though they are correct because they are not included in the limited size of the built-in dictionary (eg, proper names or technical terms ). In many cases, it may be troublesome if a spell checker automatically corrects words fail. For example, the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr is often written by such programs with two h as Mülheim.