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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: spelling</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/spelling.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-06-17T08:22:44+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>How not to apply for a job</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/17/not/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-06-17T08:22:44+00:00</published><updated>2008-06-17T08:22:44+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/17/not/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1088-how-not-to-apply-for-a-job"&gt;How not to apply for a job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Quite reasonably, 37signals care if job applicants get their wordmark right. Having worked for Yahoo! I know how important that ! is. What really winds me up is companies that aren’t consistent with name capitalisation across their own sites—many startups are guilty of this.


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</summary><category term="37signals"/><category term="jobs"/><category term="spelling"/><category term="wordmark"/><category term="yahoo"/></entry><entry><title>How to Write a Spelling Corrector</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Apr/8/write/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-04-08T21:42:10+00:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T21:42:10+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Apr/8/write/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html"&gt;How to Write a Spelling Corrector&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Example code in Python, by Peter Norvig.


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