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L2 users of English

English spelling
mistakes on the web

Native speaker
mistakes
Spelling mistakes by
famous writers

1400 L2 mistakes corpus
Spelling mistakes by:
    - Arabic speakers
    - Greek users 
    - Chinese users   
    - Spanish users
    - Japanese users

    - Bengali children
    - Koreans

    - Engrish.com link

    - Chinglish link

- fish and chip shops
- pop-groups
- Olde Tyme Spelling
- dogs' names
- car number Plates
- horses' names
- house-names
- K spellings
- eye-dialect
- U spellings
- shopsigns
- punctuation
- punctuation in names
- businesses etc

- street mistakes  
  (hand-written)
- odd public signs
- street mistakes  
  (painted)
- printed mistakes
- Newcastle signs
- Newcastle Streets
- Colchester signs
- Perugia Signs
- Dublin signs
- Northumbrian signs

Computer Mediated Communication

- summary
- e-mails
- chatrooms
- text messages

Apostrophes

- the greengrocer's
   apostrophe
- its/it's
- missing apostrophes
- till, until and 'til
- peculiar apostrophes

Books : 
Vivian Cook, Accomodating Brocoli in the Cemetary,Profile, 2004; Simon & Schuster 2005
Vivian Cook, The English Writing System, Hodder Educational, 2004