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Jean pointed to The Gender Genie, where you enter some text and it applies the Koppel-Argamon algorithm (or perhaps that...

And then there are the words that I think are different but turn out to be acceptable variants of each...

We get an awful lot of stories in which fluorescent is misspelled florescent. Presumably partly because it's another one of...

Interesting item in Nature: "Computer program detects author gender." Claim is that "[the] simple scan of key words and syntax...

Another entry in an irregular series. skirl and swirl. Possibly because it sounds a little like swirl and a little...

Only one item this time, but it's a remarkably common one: lightning and lightening. I suppose this should really go...

Another entry in an irregular series. past and passed. In the context in which they're often confused, past means "beyond"...

Only one word-pair today: The correct spelling of cell phone uses two Ls, just like a cell of the body....

More words easily confused: rein and reign. I see these confused so often that I've sometimes gotten confused about them...

One last thing for tonight: in my peregrinations earlier, I chanced across the Samizdata blog glossary. I went there to...

We've had half a dozen submissions in the past couple years that include phrases of the form "[person] slunk down...

Warning: grammar rant. Nothing to see; move along. I've seen this at least half a dozen times in stories...