We recently ran a list of the most frequently misspelled words or phrases that people have entered into the search box on LDS.org. The following is a portion of the list from June 2008, and shows the number of times someone spelled the term that way during the month. It is interesting to see how people think words are spelled.
- geneology 611
- repentence 280
- pagent 268
- poligamy 124
- patriartical blessing 166
- patriachal blessing 103
- book of morman 65
- sacrafice 65
- sacrement 60
- babtism 56
- melchezidek 56
- confrence talks 55
- preperation 39
- priestood 37
- grattitude 36
Since forgiveness is a key concept in the gospel, I hope your search engine will forgive the misspellers and give them the information they seek. I must admit my searches on LDS.org have been a little troublesome at times. I am spoiled by Google, which finds what I want and puts it toward the top. I usually find what I need with LDS.org, but I often have to click on “page 2” or “page 3” to obtain it.
Almost like we should be teaching spelling during Sunday School 🙂 .
Aw, shucks. We *do* know how to spell things, really — it’s just that going back and forth between Deseret Alphabet and Reformed Egyptian and our various mission languages makes us temporarily goofy. Yeah, that’s it. 🙂
I’m surprised “proselytizing” wasn’t in there somewhere.
That’s alright. I was looking up Adam-ondi-Ahman in the scripture search, and apparently it has a “did you mean” function that lists other people’s search words, because when I misspelled it, the options included:
– Adam Onti Amen
– Adam Onti Ahman
– Adam Onti Omen
– Adam Onti Ahmes
– Adam End Amen
– Adam End Ahman
– Adam End Omen
– Adam End Ahmes
– Adam India Amen
– Adam India Ahman
– Adam India Omen
– Adam India Ahmes
– Adam Undo Amen
– Adam Undo Ahman
– Adam Undo Omen
– Adam Undo Ahmes
I think my favorite is Adam India Omen. I would just like to know where that person heard about the term.