Internet spelling

Internet spelling

Internet spelling is a term to describe the use of words in an official Internet related context (like an RFC specification), but are misspelled to such a point, that a large number of people use the alternative spelling. Probably one of the most common words that has an Internet Spelling is the word referrer, which was misspelled in the [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html HTTP 1.0 specification] and has caught on as a spelling of the word as a result.

The Internet spelling of a word does not necessarily mean that every instance of its use on the Internet is in the Internet Spelling, it just means that the spelling of the word came into being in an Internet context. It is similar to American Spellings and British Spellings.

List of words with an Internet spelling

* referer (English: referrer)

See also

* Spelling
* Spelling reform


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