Gfanatic

My friend misspelled Philippines a lot of times. It’s not only him though. In his Facebook wall, I saw some of his friends misspelled it too, when they asked him how was his time in this tropical country. I don’t blame them since this is not their country, and there also some Filipinos who misspell it. I just found it funny to see the different incorrect spellings.

So I told him my observations and he said he found it funny too. This time though he finally knew how to spell Philippines correctly, and told me it was Google who taught him how.

When he was here, he did some searches related to the Philippines, and he would type it as: philipines, phillipines, or phillippines. But over time, he learned to spell it correctly since he was using Google all the time.

Google search has a spell checker which offers alternative spelling for queries. Google doesn’t say you misspelled the word but it will ask you: “Did you mean: (a more common spelling)?” Even though there are people who find the spell checker feature helpful, some are unsatisfied.