Timeline for What mistake is made when words are incorrectly split into two different words, changing the meaning?
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| Mar 7, 2020 at 19:22 | comment | added | Greybeard | "Examples of the error I am trying to categorise:" - Spelling mistakes. | |
| Nov 20, 2015 at 4:37 | comment | added | Charles Burns | Psycho The Rapist. Psychotherapist. | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 17:12 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | I'm not sure these are even mistakes: many, if not all, are just alternatives or older forms. | |
| May 5, 2015 at 22:48 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Technically it's known as a "mistake". | |
| May 5, 2015 at 22:39 | answer | added | Quillmondo | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 5, 2015 at 19:02 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Your last example (using backup as a verb) is actually wrong. The verb is back up, and the noun is backup. Otherwise, you would have to say "I'm backupping my computer daily". | |
| May 5, 2015 at 18:49 | comment | added | Tushar Raj |
Always make sure you back up your computer's DATA.is the right choice. Backup doesn't apply here
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| May 5, 2015 at 18:38 | comment | added | Tushar Raj | I don't understand your question. In none of the examples does the wrong choice inadvertently mean something else. What you're describing are merely spelling errors. | |
| May 5, 2015 at 18:34 | history | asked | Greg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |