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Common misspellings. Words ending with "-ment"

posted on 21st of october, 2011

I've been observing an increasing number of images with particular keywords misspelled. I wouldn't bother to write a blog entry about it, but this case is special. Why? Because all these mistakes come from many different users, and are of one, specific type. The keywords ending with "-ment"" syllable are more and more often spelled as "-mant".

Please note, the correct spellings are:
ENJOYMENT
EQUIPMENT
RETIREMENT
MOVEMENT
TREATMENT
MANAGEMENT
ENVIRONMENT
etc.

NOT enjoyMANT, equipMANT!!! etc.

The possible explanation of this case can be either:
1. There's a corrupted translating software somewhere, in popular use.
or
2. Users copy keywords from each other carelessly, without even using our spell-checker.

Is it...

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Comments (22)

	Posted by Sebcz on December 09, 2011 Please do, and let me know of the effect.
	Posted by Rosedarc on December 09, 2011 It's strange, I would definitely not have got instrument or entertainment wrong... Next time I'll submit a photo I'll enter one of those words in my EXIF data just to check
	Posted by Sebcz on December 09, 2011 @Rosedarc: we do not alter keywords upon review in any automatic way, so that's not an explanation. Besides, we would have only wrong spellings then, wouldn't we. The reason is elsewhere, beats me where, though.