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A Spellcheck Company Makes Spelling Mistakes

TextTrust, a Toronto-based company that sells software to correct Internet spelling mistakes has reissued its latest news release to correct a minor snafu. The company, which is supposed to focus on "eliminating the negative text impressions on Web sites," re-released a Tuesday news release to correct a mistake that listed the most common spelling errors on "the 16 million we (sic) pages it has spell checked over the past year."

It said the most misspelled words included independent, accommodation and definitely, which were spelled "independant", "accomodation" and definately. Pat Brink, PR consultant for TextTrust says: "It`s very embarrassing. I made the mistake, not TextTrust ? they do a much better job, It`s certainly egg on the face of this public relations person."

TextTrust also said that it used both human editors and special spell-checking software to search Web sites for spelling mistakes. "TextTrust wants to make sure that organizations never again receive the `I found a spelling error on your web site` e-mail," it said.