Wikipedia talk:Lists of common misspellings/A

"Algebraical" is a real (although uncommon) word that is not misspelled. I think the difference between "algebraic" and "algebraical" is similar to that of "historic" and "historical." Ardric47 01:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The first line of this page reads: "Please do delete a misspelling from this page just because it causes false positives." I'm thinking this should read: "Please do not delete ...", but don't want to change it as I'm a newcomer. --Jdheyerman 01:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are right, I have made the change. Gaius Cornelius 00:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ambience is listed twice, and aluminum simply shouldn't be considered a misspelling at all. Nor should its acceptable variant aluminium, for that matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.190.87.87 (talk) 08:40, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

They are listed as variants, which is why they don't have search links. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 02:35, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

acquited > acquitted, annoint > anoint[edit]

(Discussion moved from A to main talk page Wikipedia talk:Lists of common misspellings#Mini-essay in response to spelling question). Milkunderwood (talk) 09:49, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

After word has been checked[edit]

I am new to Wikipedia as editor. I started following this page so I could grab words in my free time to search for typos. If you get a word and remove found instances of the word, is common practice to put something like "Done 00:39, 19 January 2024 (UTC)" to indicate when it was last checked? I did that on the "A" page for a term. If this should not be done, let me know and I can undo those actions. Any feedback is much appreciated! MrLavoie (talk) 00:39, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MrLavoie: No, it's not commmon practice to add signatures. You'll see from the history of the page that an editor began to do this in 2019, but after some discussion all the signatures were removed. But thank you for diving in and fixing some spellings! -- John of Reading (talk) 07:54, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for providing that clarification. I look forward to aiding in the efforts of the group. MrLavoie (talk) 23:14, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]