The Many Misspellings Of Obama
October 9, 2008 - 3:20pm — bexBarrack Hussein Obama... quite an unusual name... and remarkably sucky when it comes to winning over the red states in an election...
Also, virtually all spell checkers think its a misspelling! Every time I write his name in a new application, I get that damn squiggly red line, and I keep second guessing that I might have spelled it wrong. Here is what they think I meant to write:
- Apple Spell Checker (TextMate, Mail.app, NeoOffice): ABeam, ABM, IBM
- Firefox 3: Obadiah, Obadias, Bamako, Alabama
- TextPad: Baa, Bam, Badman, Bagman, Barman, Batman, Bema, Bamako, Brahma, Banal, Bwana, Banta
hehehe... Batman...
Oddly enough... Microsoft Office 2003 does the correct thing by accepting the spelling. So a 5-year old application know more about the proper spelling of Obama than Firefox 3... which came out 2 months ago.
What other apps think "Obama" is a misspelling? What corrections do they offer?
Ephox
I took a shot in the Ephox editor used in Oracle UCM's Site Studio. Looks like it most closely resembles TextPad's suggestions.
baa, badman, bagman, barman, Bamako
I guess everybody uses similar tools...
I bet these guys all use a third party spellchecker... which would make sense. Microsoft's spell checker is quite good, perhaps because Office is such a ubiquitous product...
I like "Alabama" the best...
I wonder if Hawaii would want to rename itself "Obamalama"?
Did this spellchecker think it was Osama?
Just ran across this article...
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=728326
Osama is a misspelling too...
And a big "whoops" on that link you sent me...
I think you mean Barack
I think you mean Barack Hussein Obama....
Which product didn't catch your misspelling?
Just one 'r', eh?
All of the products think "Barack" should instead be spelled with two r's... so I guess that's a post for another day ;-)
jeez... its like being named 'Conan OBrien' or something...
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