Icy's list of typos - 26 March, 2009

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Some typos in the Edited Guide. I haven't checked every single one for context (some may be intentionally misspelled) but I'm sure most require correcting.

Thread on Editorial Feedback: F47997?thread=6437811

All items now reported fixed.

'accidently' (=accidentally)


A330878 BYOB
A791282 How to Season a Wok
A593264 Holding Hands
A592869 Torture Garden Fetish Club
A3813969 Cooking With Egg Whites
A34088169 Princess Grace of Monaco aka Grace Kelly
A129647 Trousers versus Pants
A5104441 Owls of the British Isles
A12460303 Jan Ullrich - Cyclist
A1111348 The Exeter Book of Old English Poetry
A2054620 The Wild World of XCopy
A593705 Having a Part-time Job in a Fast Food Restaurant
A615025 Giuseppe Verdi

'accomodate' (=accommodate)


A28596252 How To Get Excellent Customer Service in a Retail Store
A22083068 The Natural History Museum, London, UK

'aquire' (=acquire)


A2265536 The Animorphs Book Series

'aquired' (=acquired)


A291322 Crash Test Dummies - the Band
A9915366 The Venus de Milo - Mostly Armless
A791264 'La Marseillaise' - the French National Anthem

'aquiring' (=acquiring)


A284555 Janeane Garofalo
A2276813 Route 66 in Oklahoma

'apparant' (=apparent)


A7464215 London Underground - Victoria Line

'apparantly' (=apparently)


A14608523 King Tupou IV of Tonga
A24738654 The Like - the Band
A48674244 Broccoli

'beseiged' (=besieged)


A664571 Dinosaurs of The Isle of Wight
A35471892 Constellations: Piscis Austrinus 'the Southern Fish'
A577055 York, England, UK

'calender' (=calendar)


A8622885 The Wiccan Year Wheel - an introduction
A11103184 Green Hell - The Nurburgring Motor-Racing Circuit
A315893 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' - the TV Series

'cemetaries' (=cemeteries)


A13911725 Things to See and Do in Vienna, Austria

'collectible' (=collectable - preferred by OED although -ible is popular in the US - suggest we standardise on collectable)


A2754399 Dorks
A12590327 Coca-Cola - a Soft Drink with Other Uses
A30652445 The US Two-dollar Bill
A18927426 The Sunflower (Helianthus)
A134795 Role-playing
A847497 TIE Fighter - a Spacecraft from the 'Star Wars' Films
A34087935 Swizzle Sticks
A997969 WOXY - 97-X Oxford, Ohio, USA
A718544 The Omega Workshops
A578991 The Tom Swift Books
A540523 Clarice Cliff - Chinaware Artist
A756119 The Blue Peter Garden
A30465885 Saint Helens, Oregon, USA
A3094067 The Plectrum
A904295 Nailsea, North Somerset, UK
A632071 American Superhero Comic Books

'commited' (=committed)


A744888 The History of the London Black Taxi Trade
A1055882 'Tevye's Daughters' - the Short Stories

'comittee' (=committee)


A8465574 A Brief Introduction to Lower Limb Prosthetics

'concensus' (=consensus)


A622540 The Commodore Amiga
A443909 How to Teach your Child the Basics

'drunkeness' (=drunkenness)


A71614 The Ultimate Cocktail List *** Large entry - edited by Eds

'embarass' (=embarrass)


A930223 The Needs of Pregnant Women

'embarassing' (=embarrassing)


A12219374 The Morning Glory (or Nocturnal Penile Tumescence)
A1148050 The Winners of Triple Crown in Horse Racing
A3913472 Holding Up Large Breasts - Bras, Corsets, and Coconuts on a String
A6127841 Doctor Who - The Tom Baker Years 1974 - 1981
A20361827 Australian Slang

'embarassed' (=embarrassed)


A632062 Fan Fiction - a User's Guide

'embarassment' (=embarrassment)


A3257345 Organising a Multinational Wedding
A1904951 Great Moments in Baseball

'equiptment' (=equipment)


A79508 The Solar System

'existance' (=existence)


A152317 Dragons

'firey' (=fiery)


A765065 Bucatini all'Amatriciana
A354467 Evidence of Meteorite Impacts
A1057187 'Scrubs' - the TV Series
A3740474 The Geology of Yellowstone National Park

'fulfill' (=fulfil - preferred by OED although 'fulfill' is popular in the US - suggest we standardise on fulfil)


A147151 Humanistic Theory
A152902 Vegetable Racks
A588477 Embarrassing Questions About Sexual Orientation
A534683 Durham, County Durham, UK
A476723 How a Nuclear Plant Works
A762716 The Marsh Arabs
A25069007 How to Make a Prophecy
A13484928 Scottish Devolution and the West Lothian Question
A1339049 The Battle of Hastings - 14 October, 1066
A566453 Overlanding
A676307 The Reverend Toplady and the Rock of Ages, Somerset, UK
A716591 11 September, 1973 - The Day Democracy Died in Chile
A722503 The Schaffermahlzeit in Bremen, Germany
A857649 Docucomedy - the Life of Dave Gorman
A41608073 How To...
A1148186 Grand Theft Auto - The Computer Game
A938919 The Swedish Governmental System
A3859239 Commander Keen - the Computer Game
A10011222 Advanced Placement Courses (USA)
A832411 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
A848621 Great Footballers
A930232 Stories from World War II *** Large entry - edited by Eds

'fulfills' (=fulfils - see above)


A592841 Babylon 5 - Londo Mollari
A793622 Culture
A412570 Descriptors for Sexual Minorities
A18718941 'Little Green Men' - a 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' Episode
A588477 Embarrassing Questions About Sexual Orientation
A3970398 The United States of America

'fulfillment' (=fulfilment - see above)


A678008 Tarot
A625628 Carl Gustav Jung - His Early Work
A307243 Marion, Ohio, USA - Popcorn Festival
A406865 The Lottery
A695469 Deja Vu
A1004446 The National Holidays of Kingdom of Bahrain
A952832 Islam - an Introduction
A791336 Punk Music in Britain
A563807 Program Correctness
A142264 Horoscopes
A543836 Homosexuality
A654969 The Allure of Consumerism
A722251 Depression Survival - a Personal Account
A794388 The Transcendental Meditation Movement
A653438 Jung's Model of the Psyche - Part Two
A525278 The Constitution of the United States of America

'harrass' (=harass)


A848720 Dealing with Harassment at Work

'harrassed' (=harassed)


A757433 The Backpass Rule in Football

'harrassing' (=harassing)


A848720 Dealing with Harassment at Work

'incidently' (=incidentally)


A340516 Herne and Broomfield, Kent, UK
A261875 Chittenango, New York, USA
A430020 The Stone of Destiny
A288317 A Guide to Scottish Beer
A860429 The Origins of Contemporary Geomorphological Relief in the Preservation of an Ancient Lake Bed
A45377445 Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK
A17595408 Church Tales: Part Three
A629219 Cricket - How The Ashes Got Its Name
A780310 How to Throw the Perfect Tennis Tantrum
A2903708 'MASH' - the Film

'independant' (=independent)


A2398818 Ecstasy - the drug
A2715365 The Lord Peter Wimsey novels of Dorothy L. Sayers

'independantly' (=independently)


A20074556 'Faction Paradox' - the Science Fiction Series

'indispensible' (=indispensable)


A752401 Herge's Adventures of Tintin

'innoculate' (=inoculate)


A882371 Legionnaires' Disease - a History of its Discovery

'innoculated' (=inoculated)


A882371 Legionnaires' Disease - a History of its Discovery

'irresistable' (=irresistible)


A876846 Clovelly, Devon, UK
A285635 The Literary James Bond
A812800 Hollywood's Laws of Life, Physics and Everything
A930223 The Needs of Pregnant Women

'lightening' (=lightning)


A447815 The Astoria, London, UK
A201808 Cartoons
A293285 Napier - New Zealand's Art Deco Paradise
A591365 The Legend of 'The Flying Dutchman'

'liquify' (=liquefy)


A13346741 Basics of Photoshop
A7209920 Bramble Jelly

'liquified' (=liquefied)


A533954 Bacillus 2-9-3
A11998461 Environmentally-Friendly Disposal of Dog Waste in the UK

'maintainance' (=maintenance)


A616312 Wildlife Gardening - Water Habitat
A34644413 Ideas for Small Herb Gardens

'momento' (=memento)


A1317854 Lord Byron - Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: Almost Famous
A419375 Overland Challenge - Week Four

'momentos' (=mementos)


A23296773 Shoebox Storage

'millenium' (=millennium)


A36869575 The National Memorial Arboretum (UK)
A30044459 A Brief History Of The BBC
A30466181 A Beginner's Guide to Making Plastic Models
A142228 'Star Wars' - the Films

'millenia' (=millennia)


A45561170 The Three Wise Men

'minature' (=miniature)


A779772 The Smallest Website in the World

'miniscule' (=minuscule)


A21989992 Book Production in the Carolingian Period
A304246 Montevideo, Minnesota, USA
A30465902 Squeek Restaurant, Nottingham, UK
A21206404 New and Improved - The Great Advertising Fallacy
A32016692 'Hello World!' - Programming Tradition
A593525 McDonald's
A706862 The K-T Boundary Extinction Event
A743861 The Radar Equation
A1124740 The 1859 Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, USA
A684272 Claude Debussy - the Composer
A10421687 Hitchhiking through France and Spain
A14116943 The Favourites Icon - Favicon.ico
A9762258 British Mammals: Bats
A30465911 The Atmosphere
A20460764 The Apple iPod
A3100285 XTC - the Band

'mispell' (=misspell)


A281585 How to Open a Trendy Bar

'mispelled' (=misspelled)


A632062 Fan Fiction - a User's Guide

'non-existant' (=non-existent)


A2384426 John Hench - Imagineer and Animator

'noticable' (=noticeable)


A152821 Cheese Whiz - an American Delicacy
A188101 Sleep
A129647 Trousers versus Pants
A622540 The Commodore Amiga

'noticably' (=noticeably)


A4008494 Ice Cream Floats

'occasionaly' (=occasionally)


A19142165 The London Necropolis Railway

'occassional' (=occasional)


A87310 Saturday Matinees
A703315 Skin Specialisations Among Cephalopods

'occassionally' (=occasionally)


A500482 Danish Rye Bread

'occurence' (=occurrence)


A413632 Beddgelert, Snowdonia, Wales
A703315 Skin Specialisations Among Cephalopods
A61813 Juggling
A139420 Tigers
A297083 France
A855209 Alexander James Jude Lynn

'occurance' (=occurrence)


A703315 Skin Specialisations Among Cephalopods
A686937 The 'Genesis' Creation Account

'occurrance' (=occurrence)


A3859194 Getting to First Base in Baseball
A3021436 The British F1 Grand Prix 2004 - Race Report

'perserverance' (=perseverance)


A14508290 Stephenson's Rocket

'personel' (=personnel)


A35977611 Roman Military Ranks

'persue' (=pursue)


A21141488 Kaiser Chiefs - the Band
A752401 Herge's Adventures of Tintin

'persued' = (pursued)


A311112 Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, UK

'persuing' (=pursuing)


A322372 'Metropolis' - the Film

'persuit' (=pursuit)


A2309500 An 'Alternative' Student Night Out in Manchester

'posesses' (=possesses)


A371396 Capri, Italy

'posession' (=possession)


A1132138 Why Mosquitoes Must Die

'possesion' (=possession)


A564617 The Dutch

'preceed' (=precede)


A354458 Comets as Harbingers of Momentous Events

'preceeding' (=preceding)


A269273 Dirty Piscitelli
A21897309 How to Recognise a Good Dog Breeder

'preceeded' (=preceded)


A11690912 'Sale of the Century' - the Television Programme
A20818064 Meet Me in St Louis - a Visitor's Guide
A907544 Doctor Who: Evolution of a Title Sequence

'pronounciation' (=pronunciation)


A297236 Hebrew
A24145869 The Legend of the Lorelei

'publically' (=publicly)


A14612032 Why Cricket and Golf aren't Olympic Sports
A10357832 Polari - the Secret Language
A6083552 Dwight D Eisenhower - 34th President of the United States

'putrifies' (=putrefies)


A593471 Hecate - the Invisible Queen of the Night

'recieve' (=receive)


A585353 'The League of Gentlemen' - the TV Programme
A499269 Girlguiding in the UK - The Senior Sections
A38208035 Bodyline - When Cricket Divided Nations

'recieves' (=receives)


A6844520 How to Play Mah Jong
A19260461 Travelling by Bus in London

'reciepts' (=receipts)


A23296773 Shoebox Storage

'refered' (=referred)


A2791929 European Feudal Nobility
A593228 Zork - the Computer Game *** Large entry - edited by Eds

'refering' (=referring)


A16086279 Post-natal Depression

'relevent' (=relevant)


A3765035 Usenet - an Introduction
A3765909 The World Wide Web - an Introduction
A3764621 Email - an Introduction

'resturant' (=restaurant)


A123823 The World's Best Curry Houses
A46605567 Taunton, Somerset, UK

'resturants' (=restaurants)


A810127 Mersea Island, Essex, UK

'seige' (=siege)


A310221 Texas, USA
A311112 Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, UK

'seperate' (=separate)


A25323563 Clifton Creek, Victoria, Australia
A17595354 Church Tales: Part Two
A164503 Marillion - the Band: pre 1988
A13492640 Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs

'seperately' (=separately)


A649983 Greek Myths - Gods of Greek Mythology
A588288 Smileys: Drink (Help Page)
A559 Tower Bridge, London, UK
A12736965 Amateur Voice Acting

'sherrif' (=sheriff)


A817788 The James Bond Films - 1969-1979
A645077 The TV Western

'sieze' (=seize)


A668090 Planning for Burns Night

'siezes' (=seizes)


A3374958 The h2g2 Calendar - 12 - December

'siezed' (=seized)


A644320 Panchen Lama

'sucess' (=success)


A649299 Great h2g2 Community Events of the Past (Help Page)

'sucession' (=succession)


A620975 Sir Arthur Sullivan - Composer

'superceded' (=superseded)


A279498 Magdalen College School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
A695441 The Act of Settlement 1701
A540235 University Field Researchers' Code of Conduct (Help Page)
A580268 Period Costumes - Corset History
A593778 Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker, Nantwich, Cheshire, UK
A1148032 How To Report A Residential Exchange Line Fault
A43520410 Judo: a History
A646724 Bezique - The Card Game

'superceding' (=superseding)


A685082 Orange County, California, USA
A1113436 El in the Ugaritic Texts

'twelth' (=twelfth)


A833429 Making the Most of Ocean City, New Jersey USA
A480836 US Scouting - Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts
A480728 Girl Scouts of the USA

'tyrany' (=tyranny)


A392735 George Orwell - Author

'ukelele' (=ukulele)


A3647630 'The Intro and The Outro', a song by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
A735013 George Formby Senior - Entertainer
A22917747 Musical Instruments
A28008777 Mandolin Jones
A506585 Dick Dale - King of the Surf Guitar

'ukeleles' (=ukuleles)


A14608523 King Tupou IV of Tonga

'spelt' (=spelled)




S1. A1339120 Eric Bloodaxe, King of Jorvik (York) and Northumbria (947-954)

S2. A694640 Yoghurt Soda Bread

S3. A2198586 Bread Flour

S4. A13857122 Poitin - Irish Whiskey

S5. A700912 Acronyms

S6. A291746 Accra, Ghana

S7. A301988 Hummous

S8. A311400 The Burrey Man

S9. A455285 Three Basics of Electronics

S10. A538067 American Sign Language and the American Deaf Community

S11. A1006589 Growing Spaghetti

S12. A2184482 French Pronunciation

S13. A266131 English Usage in the Edited Guide

S14. A1039268 GuideML: P Tag

S15. A420823 Mayan Calendar System

S16. A499557 Nefertiti - Queen of Egypt

S17. A200124 Gothenburg, Sweden

S18. A1012582 'The Monitor' and 'The 'Merrimack' Armoured Ships

S19. A511679 Pharaoh Akhenaten 'the Heretic'

S20. A534764 The Venerable Bede - Historian and Theologian

S21. A774669 a-ha - the Band

S22. A49097190 How to play NIT (Recommended)

S23. A832709 Johnny Vegas - Comedian and Actor

S24. A620416 How to Pronounce Italian

S25. A3436616 The Romans in Britain: Agriculture

S26. A11950175 The Nazca Lines - South American Wonders of the World

S27. A7763781 Karlstadt am Main, Germany

S28. A43407623 Tughlakabad Fort in Delhi, India

S29. A36869557 Floella Benjamin - Activist, Actress and Producer

S30. A2390005 Erich Huckel - Scientist

S31. A1066501 'The Heights of Macchu Picchu' – a Poem by Pablo Neruda

S32. A642098 How to Make a Pagan Ritual Altar

S33. A580330 Lee Valley Country Park, Essex and Hertfordshire, UK

S34. A489684 Dyslexia

S35. A3870416 Maesteg, Wales, UK

S36. A8676598 The Birth of the Cosa Nostra - The Sicilian Mafia

S37. A41391100 Paul Newman - Actor and Charity Entrepreneur

S38. A6227633 Cuchulainn - Irish Mythological Character

S39. A34088024 Writing Signs

S40. A8688766 The Routemaster Bus - Big, Red and Shiny

S41. A9734682 Legends of Pirates and Piracy

S42. A8245910 The NATO phonetic alphabet

S43. A5133151 Konstantin Stanislavski and Method Acting

S44. A16133843 The South West Coast Path - Brixham to Torquay

S45. A21141406 Inca Ruins of Pisac and the Sacred Valley

S46. A23780270 The Zabbaleen - Cairo's Rubbish Collectors

S47. A1138600 David Beckham - Rise of a Footballer

S48. A640324 'Ruddigore' - the Comic Opera

S49. A1006561 Islam, Numerology and the Number 19

S50. A248726 Dunnies

S51. A698268 Handel's 'Messiah'

S52. A795639 Rephlex - the Record Label

S53. A588297 Smileys: Food

S54. A799428 Dartmoor, Devon UK

S55. A629228 Menorca - the Unspoilt Island of the Balearics

S56. A29779159 Nano the Dwarf - A Guide to Decimal Prefixes

S57. A44196843 Ancient Mayan Cultures

S58. A45377463 The Pleiades

S59. A20725742 Hieroglyphs

S60. A30334808 The Potomac River - A Trickle Through History

S61. A13856970 Tenochtitlan - Island City of the Aztecs

S62. A5404231 'Raven' - the children's TV gameshow

S63. A11288955 Sexual Ailments in Monty Python's 'Medical Love Song'

S64. A2125414 Yankee Doodle

S65. A3768861 The Elements: Names and Origins - O-Z

S66. A599682 Anglo-Saxon Isle of Wight: 400 - 900 AD

S67. A805871 Beating the Bounds

S68. A737723 Spanish Pronunciation

S69. A581005 Anne Frank and her Diary

S70. A41950046 English Usage in the Edited Guide

S71. A590302 Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK

S72. A596487 Confusion between Words Used in English and German

S73. A863453 German Pronunciation

S74. A878187 He-Man and The Masters of the Universe

S75. A691076 Monty Python - the Best Bits

S76. A16653918 Music in the 1990s

S77. A2577206 The Christopher Marlowe Conspiracies

S78. A766000 One-hit Wonders

S79. A623620 'Big Brother' - the TV Programme (UK)*** Large entry - edited by Eds

S80. A190045 Venice, Italy

S81. A3647630 'The Intro and The Outro', a song by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

S82. A3998767 The Graeco-Persian Wars

'misspelt' (=misspelled)


A3225106 Common Irish slang
A694613 The London Symphony Chorus
A2054620 The Wild World of XCopy
A43520410 Judo: a History

Finally: the alternatives 'judgment' and 'judgement' appear many times - do you want to standardise on one of them? If you do, I'd prefer 'judgment', but 'judgement' is a popular alternative in the UK. The Americans prefer 'judgment' for both. I count 52 Edited Entries containing 'judgment' and 13 containing 'judgement' (3 contain both). I haven't listed them.


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