Two Hundred Different Misspellings of Schwarzenegger

Sankey diagrams are good for this. Here&#x27;s one for &#x27;camouflage&#x27;. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;J5IIqCF.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;J5IIqCF.png</a>

&gt; Double letters are hard to remember and frequently don’t add anything phonetically to a word.<p>In germanic languages, they actually do. Schwarzeneger (single g) would be pronounced Schwarzen-_e_-ger, with a long and pronounced e.

See also this list of all the misspellings of Britney Spears&#x27; name from three months of Google searches: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.google.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;britney.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.google.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;britney.html</a><p>Not sure exactly how old this is -- the copyright date at the bottom says 2011, but the Wayback Machine has copies dating back to at least 2002.

Oddly, after all their research, they get the meaning of his name wrong.<p>It’s actually Black Ploughman (or Plowman if you prefer) [0]<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4zYCCR0kVvs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4zYCCR0kVvs</a>

Whenever I need to spell Arnold Schwarzenegger, I just look at my UC bachelor of science diploma on the wall. It’s very convenient.

&gt; What is the name of the Austrian bodybuilder who has been Mr. Universe three times and Mr. Olympia seven times?<p>Also the second most famous Austrian-born politician.

See also the interactive Gyllenhaal Experiment where you can try spelling different last names and see how you compare to others: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pudding.cool&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;gyllenhaal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pudding.cool&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;gyllenhaal&#x2F;</a>

I thought the misspelling that contains a racial slur would show up highly, given that it&#x27;s only one letter off, and the &#x27;a&#x27; variant does rank high; but perhaps some subconscious &quot;mental filtering&quot; in the participants avoided that.

Enjoyed this article thoroughly. My last name is a common object and only four letters, and so you would think easy to spell. However it gets butchered quite often--perhaps because people want it differentiated from the common noun.

Fun fact, in Malay or Indonesian language &quot;Schwarzenegger&quot; word pronunciation sounds very similar to &quot;susah nak eja&quot; or literally means &quot;hard to spell&quot; in English

“255 Ways to Spell Schwarzenegger”<p>The geek in me immediately thinks there’s probably more ways of spelling his name, it’s just that you’re using an 8 bit integer for the counter...

My favourites from the full list<p>Schwartzeiojaweofjaweneger<p>Schwartzenkangaroo<p>Schwarzatwizzler

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Meh. I have a six-letter surname, very common in northern Europe, and a couple of high school teachers basically never got the first vowel correct.

Very funny and interesting thanks for posting this.

There&#x27;s a machine at my work named Schwarzenegger, which is just great.