Questions tagged [spelling]
For discussing spelling-related edits, asking about preferred spellings, or reporting spelling problems on the site itself.
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Typo in moderator inbox, “new announcments”
Possibly a typo in sentence (should be "announcements"):
Moderator inbox (new announcments)
Found as a source string in transifex/traducir: https://ru.traducir.win/strings/12478
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“Perhaps you'd like to select a different tab?” - shouldn't that be 'tag' instead of 'tab'?
I just removed a tag on Linguistics.SE from all questions and then reloaded the tagged questions page. It was empty, as expected, but the suggestion is to select a different tab. It think it should ...
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Extra “will” in message from UI
I found a sentence in Transifex that contains an extra “will” word:
When a post is closed with a single community-specific close reason, this will message will be displayed publicly above any private ...
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Apostrophes in UI (', ’) which is correct?
I just noticed that in site UI at least two types of apostrophes are used:
’
'
According to Wikipedia the first one is called "Typesetter's apostrophe" and the second one is "...
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I've been getting grammar corrections rejected - resulting in a ban, while in the past every single one was always accepted. Review system broken? [closed]
I've so far been very impressed with Stack Overflow's unique review system, which has been a marked improvement on most any other.
Yet, I got banned for reviewing... What I think happened was that non-...
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Why does searching on Stack Overflow and other communities not have spelling correction?
Why does searching on Stack Overflow and other communities not have spelling correction? Something similar to Google's spelling correction...
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Inconsistent use of punctuation in newly introduced message on voting buttons
Inconsistent use of punctuation in newly introduced message on voting buttons: sometimes ends with a period, sometimes not.
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Commonmark -> CommonMark typo in automated CommonMark migration
Commonmark -> CommonMark typo in automated CommonMark migration
Example from https://travel.stackexchange.com/posts/157697/revisions
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Typo on https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/posts
In https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/posts
Most applications should use the question or answer specific methods, but /posts is available for those rare cases where any activity is of intereset.
'...
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MathJax {alignat}: Typo in Warning
Minor bug/typo:
Warning should say Argument to \begin{alignat} must be a positive integer, instead of ... must me a ... as shown below during an edit.
(taken from Bin Packing with Relational ...
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AI for proper grammar and spelling
I've noticed that there are a lot of people who edit posts. Even though they do an awesome job (I have a large vocabulary, but my grammar could use some work), I've noticed that most of (at least my) ...
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Typo in the user preferences - activity data checkbox tooltip
There is a typo in the user preferences page - Activity data checkbox tooltip.
The tooltip text is
Use On-Site Activity for Relevent Content
The typo in the "Relevent", it should be "Relevant"
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Typo in the flag summary page banner
There is a typo in the Disputed flags page banner. The word agreement is as aggreement. Extra "g" is added.
In plain text:
When flags are reviewed by trusted members of the community and they are ...
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Spelling mistake in Stack Exchange, Inc. API Terms of Use page
In the Stack Exchange, Inc. API Terms of Use page, the first paragraph has a word with a spelling mistake.
The word programmatically is displayed as programatically (with single m).
... a set of ...
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Typo on https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-filter
In https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-filter
When the size of the parameters being sent to this method grows to
large, problems can occur. This method will accept POST requests to
...
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Typo on https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/posts-by-ids
In https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/posts-by-ids:
To find ids programatically look for post_id, answer_id, or question_id on post, answer, and question objects respectively.
It should be:
To ...
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Is it considered good practice to edit region based spellings? [duplicate]
Recently I've noticed that some of my questions/answers on various communities have been edited for reasons such as "spelling mistakes".
They've included things such as changing "initialise" to "...
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Can I build a bot for Stack Exchange which fixes spelling and grammar?
I've been looking into the Stack Exchange API, and thinking of building a bot.
I often see posts by new users that have poor spelling and grammar. I figure that a bot can easily do the job of fixing ...
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Inbox typo “exampe comment”
I just received an inbox notification for an "exampe comment" (sic):
That should be "example comment".
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What's the preferred solution to other users writing my username wrong?
This is probably a weird and somewhat silly question, but recently, I've found that a couple of users have made the same typo in my username: Nzali instead of Nzall. If people accidentally make a typo ...
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Why doesn't the spell-checker work in question titles in Firefox?
I rely on using the spellchecker when writing my posts.
I noticed that when I write in the title field the spell checker isn't available. In the body of the question the spellchecker does function ...
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Inconsistent typography in close reason
The text for the close reason “unclear what you’re asking” contains four apostrophes: three simplified typewriter apostrophes U+0027 and one correct typographic apostrophe U+2019.
unclear what you're ...
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Spelling error in release notes
The iOS latest version of the SE app's release notes has a spelling error:
The achievement bar button item will now stay in it's designated area
The word it's is misspelled; there should be no ...
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Typo in roomba deletion reason: RemovedAbandonedClosed has an extra “d”
When a closed question gets automatically deleted, the reason of deletion which is displayed is "RemovedAbandonedClosed", but the help center says it should be "RemoveAbandonedClosed" (without the ...
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Typo when dismissing comment flags as moderator
Perhaps a minor issue, but the text that accompanies this action reads "comment flag dimissed" [sic]:
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Typo in Stack Snippets: “Javascript” should be “JavaScript”
That's not a pluralization bug, so I shouldn't expect Jeff coming to my house with a giant "S", right?
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Typo in the Terms of Service
I found a typo in the Terms of Service, section 4.
When accessing the askubuntu.com, meta.askubuntu.com, or chat.askubuntu.com sites ("AskUbuntu"), Subscriber will also abide by the most ...
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Spelling correction in Tour page
In each site's Tour page (except MSE) under Improve posts by editing or commenting section the image describes about how to use comments.
In that the content is as add comment but actually in the ...
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Spelling correction in comment everywhere privilege page
In each site's Comment Everywhere - Privilege page, under How do I comment? section the description is starting as "Click the add comment link under each post....."
But actually in the posts add a ...
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Should the writing style be corrected by editors?
Some people put a bunch of sentences in one paragraph. Others like to separate their writing a bit more and would write the same thing in 2 or 3 paragraphs. Some people use a lot of abbreviations, ...
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Spelling mistake in Stack Exchange tool tip
I see a spelling mistake in Stack Exchange network profile page accounts tab's tool tip. The "across" is displaying "accross" in the accounts tab.
But in reputation and activity ...
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Typo in “Stack Overflow Thanks YOU!” page [closed]
As can be seen here, highlighted in yellow color:
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Typo at /help/searching
At /help/searching, it says:
Relative datas in a range (1y..) look back to the same date...
But "data" is already plural! (Or, maybe, it's uncountable.)
Also, and perhaps more importantly, "datas"...
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Please use proper en-dashes for ranges in SO Careers
Tagged spelling since some wonderful person is probably watching it for these quick fixes and it's in the same spirit as a simple typo.
Please replace the hyphens on the careers profile page with en-...
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English as a second language - Is it acceptable to edit spelling and grammar? [duplicate]
This question refers specifically to questions posed by individuals that are clearly using English as a second language. It does not refer to people who are making minor mistakes in their native ...
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Correct spelling mistakes in titles [duplicate]
Should I take the effort to correct spelling mistakes in titles? I get a +2 from correcting, but this is a never-ending-task. Is this useful or should I spend my energy in something else?
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Typo on malware page
On https://stackexchange.com/about/malware , the second sentence reads:
Please report any site proxing our content to Google here:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport
That probably ...
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“Subcribe” to the weekly newsletter
Some sites have a right sidebar advertisement for the newsletter which triggers a popup for anonymous users (and maybe some others) to enter an email address where they'd like the email to be sent. ...
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Spelling fix (for Canadians)
Before you say this is an insignificant change and a waste of time, please read the countless "bug reports" on plural misuse.
Yes, this is a small change. But for the sake of the Canadians (and other ...
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Typo in Stack Egg “winning the internet” message [closed]
I won the internet!!
I got the congratulatory message on winning, but noticed a typo:
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Typo and about the book search
If I add a book to the read books on the careers site, I should be able to search by ISBN; at least the text tells me I can. But neither ISBN-10 nor ISBN-13 worked; search by title did. If it does not ...
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Typo in ad for Braintree
This ad has surfaced on SO.
The drone is a Parrot Bebop Drone instead of bepop.
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Does SE standardise [!] on American English or is British English allowed too? [duplicate]
I had a recent edit which "corrected" my spellings to American English. Should I care?
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Typo in tooltip on network profile
On the network profile, the tooltip of accounts tab has a typo.
(it says "accross" instead of "across")
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misspelled “chcecked” in the notification mail
I just received an email from Stack Exchange <do-not-reply@stackexchange.com>, which has a misspelled word "chcecked". It should be "checked".
The following items were added to your Stack ...
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New email template: small typo or you love us? :p [duplicate]
I want to say that I was very surprised to see the new email template, you did great work as usual.
I just wanted to point out that there is a small <3 at the bottom of the email. I guess that's ...
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Prevent edits of under 6 characters of your own post from bumping it to the top of the active list
So...I just found a typo in one of my old posts. It's only one character off. On the one hand, I want to fix it because I'd like my posts to be typo-free. On the other hand, I don't want to look ...
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Someone pressed Shift in The generic off-topic reason
It's an incredibly minor typo, I know. It's just that it looks weird as heck, and the longer it stays, the more closed questions get stuck with it forever.
asked Apr 22 '14 at 4:05
michaelb958--GoFundMonica
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Require questions to pass a spell-checker
Right now writing proper English is optional instead of mandatory. As a result, there are a lot of questions here that have:
Awful grammar.
Spelling errors.
Txtspeak - using 'u' instead of 'you'.
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