I've added Tina's new update, and you can see it at http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/typoscomplete607.html If this goods good to you all, I'll...
Tina, Yes, but at the expense of sounding clueless, why do some have two ... Terry Terry Ballard, Automation Librarian Quinnipiac University, Bernhard Library ...
Ballard, Terry Prof.
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Jun 11, 2002 12:08 pm
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... [star] is a term added in this, the third 2002 update. Tina...
5 -- OCLC (however, one is a sic) 1 -- OhioLink From a typo posted to Fiction-L. Phalbe...
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Jun 18, 2002 6:01 pm
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Tina and Terry, The main list looks great. The colors and the star and Unix pipe really make the list easy to navigate and read. Good job. I know it's a lot of...
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Jun 18, 2002 6:03 pm
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FYI, here's a message I sent to AUTOCAT that may be of interest here as well. After I sent my list of MainList additions, someone warned that suspected typos...
As in mutifamily housing, mutimillionaires, etc. I don't know that there's an easy way to do a collective search; words like mutilation will be part of the...
Barbara Bristow
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Jul 10, 2002 3:27 pm
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I just realized I posted this list to AUTOCAT and LIBSUP-L but not to LIBTYPOS-L. For the benefit of those searching the archives for this type of list-- Here...
This message was originally posted to the AUTOCAT discussion list. I have re-posted it with permission from the author, and included my response to her. Anyone...
Actually, all the words on our list that are missing the first letter or two *are* filing indicator errors. But we don't have them separated out. There's also...
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Jul 23, 2002 5:28 pm
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... That's what I recalled, as well. If I really wanted to pursue this in depth, I would ask our system manager if she could (and would) generate a list of the...
... Well, let's see if Jesse Song replies. Maybe the best way to check a database for filing indicator errors is to spell-check it with Jesse's software. ...
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Jul 23, 2002 6:15 pm
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Folks, I'm majorly behind on updates, but I started working on the list tonight. Did we decide about "untill" or not? Does it qualify for MoreTypos? cut 'n...
fredom -- 4 typos of 7 hits (3 18th and 19th cent. records) do we consider old spellings to be alternate spellings? pasing -- 2 typos (also a surname and a...
Hi all, I'm not really sure how this works, but I found 27 instances of technolg+ on my library's catalog (and did not see it listed on the Terry Ballard...
Carol, Good work! Once we find a likely word, the way we usually work it is to search it in Ohiolink at http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search , because that is the...
Thanks, Phalbe. We did have a module that will check for possible filing indicator errors. However, it has never been implemented in our Spell Checker...
Jesse Song
jsong@...
Jul 29, 2002 3:54 pm
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However, I'd be highly suspicious of any first word in a line that is missing the first coupla letters. Phalbe...
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Jul 29, 2002 4:02 pm
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Galation+ 18 hits in OhioLINK Corinthains 1 hit Philippins 1 I also found 1 case of "Galatins" in our catalog, but got zero hits in OhioLINK and...
Folks, Msn.com, which I use as a home page at work, has a link to this spelling test today: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz/quiz.asp?QuizID=71 Thought you might...
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:29 pm
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I found 29 examples of "Staes" (for "States") in the NYSL catalog, and 49 in OhioLink. I don't see it on the Ballard list. Carol Reid New York State Library...