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HEY, WE’RE NOT PERFECT, in spite of spell check. Factiva, a Dow Jones company, spent a year tracking the top misspelled words in the American news media. The most mangled word of all was “judgment,” which was misspelled 2,860 times in the newspapers, business papers and magazines that Factiva’s analysis covered.
Here is the rest of the list:
lightning ………… 1,937
millennium ………….. 954
calendar ……………. 843
cemetery ……………. 576
accommodate …………. 462
collectible …………. 424
receive or receipt …… 383
committed …………… 350
separate ……………. 340
