Lesson 1: Common Spelling Errors on eBay

SPELLING THYME . . . I MEAN SPELLING TIME

eBay is written with a lowercase 'e', an uppercase 'B' and lowercase 'a' and 'y'. eBay. Oops...I've been typing Ebay or EBay for years. Never noticed the red underline indicating a misspelled word.

Both 'P's in PayPal are capitalized. I'm pretty sure I have hundreds of listings that read Paypal. Guess I better get them corrected.

As of May 26, 2009 here are some words I found misspelled on eBay listings:

acquire - over 2,000 left out the 'c'
believe - over 6,800 have 'ei' instead of 'ie'
calendar - over 1,000 changed the 'e' to an 'a'
camouflage - 3,600 with the 'u' in the wrong place (camoflauge)
collectible - over 171,000 put an 'a' instead of an 'i'
equipment - 54 have an extra 't' (equiptment)
experience - over 4,600 put experiance
guarantee - over 17,000 switched the 'u' and the 'a'
handkerchief - 900 left out the 'd', 9,000 didn't
height - 3 million did not begin and end with an 'h', 650 did
independent - over 4,800 put independant
jewelry - over 18,000 have an extra 'e' ( jewelery)
license - 232 switched the 'c' and the 's'
maintenance - 763 have maintainance, over 1,000 listings have maintenence
millennium - over 6,800 only have one 'n'
miniature - over 1,700 left out the 'a' and over 4,300 left out the second 'i'
necessary - 7,500 added an extra 'c', 4,700 added an extra 'c' and took out an 's'
noticeable - over 18,000 are missing the 'e'
possession - over 2,100 listings posession, over 3,700 listings possesion, over 113,000 have it spelled correctly
raspberry - over 1,300 left out the 'p'
receive - over 223,000 listings have recieve while nearly 7 million got it right
recommend - over 3,000 listings have an extra 'c'
reference - over 1,000 listings have referance
restaurant - 166 listings have the 'u' in the wrong place (restaraunt)
separate - over 71,000 listings have seperate
shipped - 11 million got it right, 11 thousand left out a 'p'
success - over 5,400 only have one 'c'
supersede - over 1,100 listings have supercede
until - over 27,000 have untill (over 3 million have it correct!)
vacuum - over 2,100 have 'cc' instead of uu (99,000 got it right)
weird - over 700 switched the vowels while 31,000 didn't

The counts probably change hour by hour so don't be surprised if your search brings up more or less than I've indicated. I searched by title and description.

While some of the errors can be attributed to language translations and others to typos, most of them are simply spelled incorrectly.

I'll be going threw...thru...through all of my listings looking specifically for typos and spelling errors. If you find any, please let me know!