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Biotech / Medical : Biotech Valuation
CRSP 56.87-2.3%Dec 5 9:30 AM EST

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To: DewDiligence_on_SI who wrote (22234)12/14/2006 11:43:19 PM
From: Biomaven  Read Replies (3) of 52153
 
Twice in one sentence!

Forbes will never live that down - that sentence is going to become immortal.

Here's a challenge - what's the most commonly misspelled word on the internet? My definition here is the ratio of appearances of the correctly spelled word on the web (as defined by google's count) to the count of all incorrect spellings of the word. (So obviously this doesn't work for pairs of legitimate words such as "lose/loose").

I have a candidate where the ratio is less than 3:1 (in other words it is incorrectly spelled more than 1/3 of the time, pretty much always with the same incorrect spelling). Hint: This word is a herb, rather than a verb. :)

There's actually another word I can think of that's very close in this misspelling league, although this one has multiple incorrect spellings. As a hint I would guess that the ratio improved around seven years ago when this word was at a usage peak.

Peter
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