Fix the spelling error on the search page | The Coffeehouse

nektar

A long time ago I have posted on the Channel9 bug wiki that there is a spelling mistake on the search page. Instead of saying separated by commas, it says seperated. Please fix it.

Rossj

Loadsgood wrote:
"(seperated by a comma)"

Should be separated not seperated.

Loadsgood
What is your answer?

I don't know what you're reading but I see:

"(seperated by a comma)"

Diving on bugs,
Loadsgood.

EDIT: I don't know whether I told the admins about this or not, but I certainly intended to. On the search results page there is a spelling error. In the top bar it says "Results 1 - 10 of approximatley 1,778 posts. Search took 0.014 seconds." approximatley should be approximately.

Loadsgood
What is your answer?

Wow, am I blind or what? Well I guess there is a bug in my dictionary (in my head) since I always thought seperated was correct because that's how I say it. Well the bug in my dictionary is now fixed Smiley

Why is a bug in a program called a bug? Why not an insect?
Loadsgood.

Loadsgood
What is your answer?

While we're on the subject of spelling mistakes and correct English, what's up with the sentence underneath The Moblog?

Ever wonder what it's like at Microsoft? Us either, but people here take some pretty funky photos and we decided to let them put them here.

Doesn't really make sense... "Us either" well I hope that gets fixed.

Spelling mistakes from hell,
Loadsgood.

Rossj

Loadsgood wrote:
While we're on the subject of spelling mistakes and correct English, what's up with the sentence underneath The Moblog?

Ever wonder what it's like at Microsoft? Us either, but people here take some pretty funky photos and we decided to let them put them here.

Doesn't really make sense... "Us either" well I hope that gets fixed.

I don't believe the Americans use neither or nor, nor do they use almost (as in I eat almost anything).

Loadsgood
What is your answer?

Rossj wrote:
I don't believe the Americans use neither or nor, nor do they use almost (as in I eat almost anything).

Strange, is there any explanation for why Americans drive on the right side of the road? I heard that back in the day, the English said their explanation for driving on the left hand side was to leave their gun hand free (right hand). Anyway to prove it?

Anyway to prove anything?
Loadsgood.

Rossj

Loadsgood wrote:
I heard that back in the day, the English said their explanation for driving on the left hand side was to leave their gun hand free (right hand). Anyway to prove it?

I can disprove it, guns are illegal in the UK.

Arran

Loadsgood wrote:

Why is a bug in a program called a bug? Why not an insect?
Loadsgood.

Its going back to when the most basic computer filled a room, they had a large number of relays. Well these used to get messed up by moths and other such things getting trapped between the points. After that the term ‘bug’ stuck…

does not really answer the question of why we now don’t call it demothing…

GeoffC
Picture of a retired stiff

To expand on Arran's answer a little - it's called a "bug" instead of a moth because that is how Grace Hopper described it when writing about it in the operators' log.

See: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-h/g-hoppr.htm

Tensor
Im in yr house upgrading yr family

Loadsgood wrote:

Rossj wrote: I don't believe the Americans use neither or nor, nor do they use almost (as in I eat almost anything).

Strange, is there any explanation for why Americans drive on the right side of the road? I heard that back in the day, the English said their explanation for driving on the left hand side was to leave their gun hand free (right hand). Anyway to prove it?

Anyway to prove anything?
Loadsgood.

It would be sword hand, rather than gun hand. I think it goes back much longer than that though.

Heres a site claiming to show why some countries switched to the right, and why that became dominant. I make no claims of historical accuracy - it was just my "I Feel Lucky" hit.

http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/driving%20on%20the%20left.htm

The chances of the UK swapping to the left now, with somthing like 400,000 km of paved roads to check and change, redoing all the signing, etc, are fairly slim. Allthough you could bundle changing all the signs to KM from miles at the same time!

Arran

"Visitors are informed that in the United Kingdom traffic drives on the left-hand side of the road. In the interests of safety, you are advised to practise this in your country of origin for a week or two before driving in the UK.”

This has got to be a really unsafe recommendation Smiley

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

The explanation I've heard on Discovery Channel once is that Napoleon was left-handed, and forced his armies to fight left-handed, which caused mainland Europe to drive on the right side. I'm not sure if this is true though.

GeoffC
Picture of a retired stiff

If you heard it on the Discovery Channel, then almost by definition it ain't true... Trash produced by meeja studies graduates masquerading as Science. Hah!

TomasDeml
Run Chiro, Run!

BTW, while we on the subject of corrections, you should change "© Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved." at the bottom of the page to "© Copyright 2004-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved."

Wink

Charles
Welcome Change

Fixed the spelling mistakes.

C

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

Theories was to why people drive on right or left side of the road

EDIT: FWIW, I grew up in a left-driving country but now live in a right-driving country

On the whole I mildly prefer the left for no particular reason