Talk:English spellings/Catalogs/Common misspellings A

My attention was drawn to this by comments on RationalWiki, but it seems more sensible to comment here, especially as one has to take a Turing test to comment over there.

Conceptually, "common misspellings" is problematic. I'm reminded of the old lines


 * Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason?
 * Why, if it doth, there's none dare call it treason.

A common misspelling that becomes sufficiently common ceases to count as a misspelling at all (e.g. imposter, which is now in standard dictionaries). So this series of pages theoretically lists spellings that are above one threshold (to count as common) but below another (to count as misspellings. Peter Jackson 10:41, 2 March 2013 (UTC)