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Two Hundred Different Misspellings of Schwarzenegger
- shmageggy 6y agoMy favourites from the full list Schwartzeiojaweofjaweneger Schwartzenkangaroo Schwarzatwizzler
- spicymaki 6y agoVery funny and interesting thanks for posting this.
- cowllin 6y agoThanks! We have so many more to investigate... I'm thinking "cirque du soleil" is my next one. I see at least 48 different spellings on it at first glance...
- bombcar 6y agoI’d be interested in the state most misspelled (maybe California or Pennsylvania) and the one least (probably Ohio or Iowa).
- TMWNN 6y agoI'd be shocked if Mississippi is not the most misspelled US state name.
- cowllin 6y agoNot about spelling but we had someone investigate what state is guessed when a different state is the answer... here's the gif showing that data: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/connorwaldoch_python-matplotlib-trivia-activity-6698628654496288769-tCc-/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/connorwaldoch_python-matplotl...
- edgarvaldes 6y agoWhy California?
- chrysoprace 6y agoI would've thought Arkansas would've been at the top of that list.
- dehrmann 6y agoMassachusetts and Connecticut have got to be up there.
- dmckeon 6y agoThere was a post office in New Mexico that had collected over 100 misspellings of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pojoaque,_New_Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pojoaque,_New_Mexico
- teraflop 6y agoSee also this list of all the misspellings of Britney Spears' name from three months of Google searches: http://archive.google.com/jobs/britney.html http://archive.google.com/jobs/britney.html Not sure exactly how old this is -- the copyright date at the bottom says 2011, but the Wayback Machine has copies dating back to at least 2002.
- hawktheslayer 6y agoEnjoyed this article thoroughly. My last name is a common object and only four letters, and so you would think easy to spell. However it gets butchered quite often--perhaps because people want it differentiated from the common noun.
- cowllin 6y agoIs it also a word that is an occasional answer to a trivia question? If so... I can let you know what our stats say :)
- hawktheslayer 6y agoThanks that would be interesting. Though I doubt it would be even an occasional triva answer-I'm no Schwarzenegger!
- labster 6y agoWhenever I need to spell Arnold Schwarzenegger, I just look at my UC bachelor of science diploma on the wall. It’s very convenient.
- godelmachine 6y agoWas he there at the convocation?
- adamjb 6y agoThere's a machine at my work named Schwarzenegger, which is just great.
- MR4D 6y agoOddly, after all their research, they get the meaning of his name wrong. It’s actually Black Ploughman (or Plowman if you prefer) [0] [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYCCR0kVvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYCCR0kVvs
- cowllin 6y ago[author of the article] Great find! Had not seen this clip. We were just using our dear friend Wikipedia for the etymology :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenegger_(surname) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenegger_(surname)
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- wmf 6y agoSee also the interactive Gyllenhaal Experiment where you can try spelling different last names and see how you compare to others: https://pudding.cool/2019/02/gyllenhaal/ https://pudding.cool/2019/02/gyllenhaal/
- userbinator 6y agoI thought the misspelling that contains a racial slur would show up highly, given that it's only one letter off, and the 'a' variant does rank high; but perhaps some subconscious "mental filtering" in the participants avoided that.
- woodruffw 6y agoIronically (and unfortunately), the first half of Schwarzenegger's name is also a Yiddish slur that means exactly the same thing.
- _underfl0w_ 6y agoThis actually gives that term used as the spoof-equivalent of "The Force" from the movie Spaceballs a surprising double meaning. Had no idea.
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- vore 6y agoI'm not sure having what someone pointed out is a double entendre with a Yiddish slur is a selling point here...
- scoutt 6y agoIt's The Schwartz, with a T. I don't know if it has a meaning or if it means the same thing as Schwarz. https://spaceballs.fandom.com/wiki/The_Schwartz https://spaceballs.fandom.com/wiki/The_Schwartz
- Sebb767 6y agoIn German, it (schwarz) simply means 'black', with pretty much the same negative connotation it has in English when taking about persons.
- Sebb767 6y ago> Double letters are hard to remember and frequently don’t add anything phonetically to a word. In germanic languages, they actually do. Schwarzeneger (single g) would be pronounced Schwarzen-_e_-ger, with a long and pronounced e.
- JustinVx 6y agoYep. They are an important indicator of how to pronounce a word. I thought the same thing was true in English, but now I’m not sure..
- yardstick 6y agoThere are soo many different English accents both within the UK and around the world that consistent pronunciation isn’t guaranteed. Tomato, Aluminium, Chips, Craig to name a few off the top of my head.
- tsimionescu 6y agoHow is Chips pronounced differently?
- Hedepig 6y agoIt almost appears as if they were referring to the American alternatives, Aluminum and fries. I'd have thought the accents argument would apply to any location, Germany included.
- owlmirror 6y agoGerman dialects are rarely written and if they are they are written different from Standard German. The written German language is very phonetic and if you know the rules you know exactly how a word is supposed to be pronounced.
- k4tz 6y agoI've heard that it's common to use the phrase "fish and chips" to distinguish between Australians and New Zealanders.
- roydivision 6y ago“255 Ways to Spell Schwarzenegger” The geek in me immediately thinks there’s probably more ways of spelling his name, it’s just that you’re using an 8 bit integer for the counter...
- scollet 6y ago"0 Ways to Spell Schwarzenegger"
- worker767424 6y ago> What is the name of the Austrian bodybuilder who has been Mr. Universe three times and Mr. Olympia seven times? Also the second most famous Austrian-born politician.
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- mkurz 6y agoSecond? Whom do you refer to as most famous one? I guess the one that was born in 1889?
- OscarCunningham 6y agoSankey diagrams are good for this. Here's one for 'camouflage'. https://i.imgur.com/J5IIqCF.png https://i.imgur.com/J5IIqCF.png
- thunderbong 6y agoInteresting. I've never seen this kind of visualization used for dictionary hierarchies like this.
- teleforce 6y agoFun fact, in Malay or Indonesian language "Schwarzenegger" word pronunciation sounds very similar to "susah nak eja" or literally means "hard to spell" in English
- codenberg 6y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/avruas/10000_attempts_at_spelling_matthew_mcconaughey_oc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/avruas/100...
- cafard 6y agoMeh. I have a six-letter surname, very common in northern Europe, and a couple of high school teachers basically never got the first vowel correct.