Daily typo - 5/15/08 - Seperate (for Separate)

Typo of the Day for Librarians
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Seperate (for Separate)

I have a 50/50 chance of spelling Separate as "Seperate." I've come up with
a chant for myself to help decide how to spell it: "the a's separate the
e's." Another [that I often forget] is: there's "a rat" in separate. Rote
memorization isn't working for me. I can console myself in that I am not
alone. Library catalogs have a high probability of this typo. A recent check
of OhioLINK had 61 entries for "Seperate"--with many of the titles showing
". seperate [sic]" especially for the 17th and 18th century titles on
microfilm. This particular typo has been around for centuries and will
persist far into the future. Be sure to try truncating the typo as
"Seperat*" to find dozens more typos!

Jeffrey's selection for the picture to accompany "Seperate" is so cool! 
The caption for this photo found on Flickr is "Siamese Bread Twins -
Separated." This is an idea from a Delhaize supermarket: white bread and
whole-grain baked into one loaf. Easy to separate, very tasty, and organic,
too.

Wendee Eyler

Extracted, for AUTOCAT, from Typo of the Day for Librarians at
http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/. If you have comments about the words
selected, how they are selected, or the way the items are written, please
contact Terry Ballard <terry.ballard@...>.

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