Peter Otten wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > >> 'separate' (se-parate == take a-part) and its derivatives are perhaps the >> most frequently misspelled English word on clp. Seems to be 'par' for the >> course. It has 2 e's bracketing 2 a's. It derives from the Latin >> 'parare', as does pare, so 'par' is the essential root of the word. >> >> My gripe for the day, just to let non-native writers know what not to >> imitate. > > I hereby suggest seperate/(separate+seperate) as the hamburger standard (see > http://www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml) for technical > communities. Some data points, adjectives only, s.e.e.o.: > > the web: 4% > python: 9% > slashdot: 26% > perl: 29% *
How did you get these data points? Reinhold -- [Windows ist wie] die Bahn: Man muss sich um nichts kuemmern, zahlt fuer jede Kleinigkeit einen Aufpreis, der Service ist mies, Fremde koennen jederzeit einsteigen, es ist unflexibel und zu allen anderen Verkehrs- mitteln inkompatibel. -- Florian Diesch in dcoulm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list