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Right click link -> Open link in incognito window Hacky workaround, yes, but this is HN after all
or you can just delete your site cookies. I strongly doubt that they are fingerprinting you.
Went through five celebrities before the first I recognized. Would be nice to see how many of us can spell e.g. Dijkstra.
An alarmingly frequent misspelling is "Ghandi" instead of "Gandhi".
"i know there's an h in the name, but i forget where it goes..." => Ghandi seems like an extremely understandable mistake for an english speaker
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Can you spell bureau? Maybe you can make a mnemonic, how are you with spelling burette? A crazy person is using a burette with a gold (Au) end, extruding a 3D wireframe model of a desk (bureau): Bure(tte)+au+crazy ... and hopefully you can remember where the final "c" goes.
I cannot spell bureau. It trips me up even typing it. Maybe this is the thread that will have finally jammed it into my brain. I'll get back to you in a week or so. :-)
B-E-A-Utiful
Surprisingly it helps with words that have that 'eau' mash of vowels.
A fun dataset (how many people cannot spell using Google's text box) but a couple of points 1. I could not recognise my first picture so had to use the speech tab - which I swear sounds like Mark McGuires (with the S). So I add the extra S and of course get it "wrong". I know I am being picky but ... Secondly, how much of this dataset is Google being too good at correcting our spelling - I know I regularly send googl…
I tried writing "Palahniuk". Here I stopped typing after the h:
PPALPPALAHPPALPPALAHAN