Thursday, January 8, 2009

Wonderings and Googlings (Wherein I wonder about words, then I Google them)

All who doubt the word-conspiracy theory I wrote of yesterday, behold: Not 24 hours after I blogged that the word "Columbia" was out to get me by trying to pass itself off as "Colombia," I found this in a story I was editing:

(The restaurant) Botero, features ... original paintings by the Columbian artist along the walls.
Diabolical.

So I thought I'd do a Google search see whether this spelling is spreading its poison across the Web. Yup.

Bogota, Columbia -Colombia = 72,800 hits

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2 comments:

  1. Matthew NewtonJanuary 9, 2009 at 9:12 PM

    You know, Columbia University has an excellent Master of Fine Arts program. If the restaurant was showing paintings from one of the students or faculty then it could have been a Columbian painter...
    Try that excuse on for size the next time it slips past.

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  2. June CasagrandeJanuary 9, 2009 at 9:37 PM

    Hey, you're really on to something! I could even tailor it to the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" crowd -- remember that redheaded character with the sequinned top hat and tap shoes? For all I knew, the artist COULD have specialized in pictures of her ...

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