Many Americans and others are still unable to spell Barack Obama’s first name correctly. At least that is the conclusion of the folks at GooseGrade, a service that allows readers to post corrections for grammar, spelling and factual errors on blogs and other online media outlets using a free widget.
GooseGrade did some quick and dirty research and found at least 60 million pages on the Internet with Obama’s first name misspelled. “Barak” is the most common misspelling, followed in close second by “Barrak”, and finally “Barrack”. It’s one “r”, a “c” and a “k,” for those still having trouble. The startup even counted web sites intentionally placing misspelled ‘meta-tags’ or keywords into the site code of their pages to pick up traffic from misspelled searches.
In case you were wondering, I can find about 101 million pages on Google with the correct name (results may vary depending on your location).
GooseGrade points out that thousands of bloggers and other online authors will miss out on incoming search traffic by misspelling Obama’s name, although they fail to note the fact many will probably also search for the wrong terms and that search engines already take the misspellings into account when serving up results.
Wow! If they can’t spell his name, it makes you wonder what else they don’t know about him. I wonder if they can spell Blagojevich, Ayers, Rezco, Wright, Richardson, Raines, etc.
I’m quite the silly goose,
all this time, I’ve been totally misspelling his name!
Barry Soetoro
I guess I get an F
Cory you’re totally right, and if they can’t spell those, can they spell any of these?
douche, douchebag, cory mcdouche
man, we need better education in this country!
Nice. I assume from your response that you’d rather hurl insults than deal with the implication of my message. So, I have to ask. Why are you so afraid to address the content of my comment rather than attempt to attack me personally?
> it makes you wonder what else they don’t know about him.
Like the fact that he’s not eligible to be president by nature of not being a born citizen of the US.
Wow… can you spell “Techcrunch sucks” for posting the most irrelevant crap.
How abut an analysis of how many don’t know how to spell arrington…
WTF…. grow up dudes
It’s “TechCrunch” and “about”.
OMG Like totally dude! these guys are like sooooo inmature and they kant spel either!
I think you should boy cot posting on the boards dude… Untill they grow up!
Instead of a period at the end of the first sentence, you should have used a question mark. Also, ‘how many WHO don’t know’ would be better grammar although I would have excluded the phrase entirely. Finally, you should have used a period or exclamation point at the end of your last sentence.
Grammar: F
Spelling: F
Content: F
That being said; enjoy the rest of your middle school years!
Oh yeah and “arrington” should probably be capitalised, we do that when its someone’s proper name.
@richard – It is “it’s” not “its”.
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‘Often thought there should be a plugin for blog software (I’m looking at you, WordPress!) that would allow readers to quickly make trivial edits to correct grammar and typos.
No idea how you’d keep the spammers at bay, but it’d be nice to have blog posts that were somewhat self correcting like that.
I like what Goosegrade does, cool tool!
Could their design be a bigger rip off CNN?
I wish I could say that surprised me, but so many people are just emotionally involved and not thoughtfully involved in this historic day.
That’s one reason I think so many that are “hopeful” will be sorely disappointed because they’ve raised this man to mythic proportions at this point. And the economy is in some dire straights that I don’t think any administration can fix overnight let alone a year or two.
many people didn’t know why they were voting for him, so why should they know how to spell his name?
supporter?
indifferent
Keywords in the source of the new whitehouse.gov. Favorite is Obma. I mean, seriously…
– President, Barack Obama, White House, United States of America, 44th President, White House history, President Obama, Barck, Barek, Barak, Barrack, Barrak, Obma, Barack
hm… this kould komein handeee for my krappy spelling
Seriously , useless post.
Infact the Crunchies are True, The Name Barack Obama is easy to spell after you hear it from some one or hear often.
It comes difficult when you try to recollect and write it.
You mean his last name isn’t spelled with an S?
Rely? I always thought people kept spelling the name: “Borack” because that is how everyone is pronouncing it. What in the world? why? Did I miss the o in that? there is no pleepin “o” in the name “Barack”. Then why is everyone pronouncing it with one. Or is it just me?
obama sucks nigga dicks
Wasn’t it Shakespeare who said “Call a rose any other name and it will still smell as fresh” ?
So, whatever name he is called, what we are interested in is – will he still smell as fresh?!
I can spell it just fine: O-b-a-m-a B-i-n L-a-d-e-n
You mean: بارك حسین أوباما ?
grow up. you got tols by a 14 year old
Speaking of Barack Obama:
Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual, and he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
I think that many people who use the internet are capable of spelling words correctly on paper. I’ve seen it many times where a person’s spelling goes down the toilet when they use a keyboard. (They never learned how to type!)
Oh, and are too lazy to fix any errors!
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I hate school.
please delete this crap!
Right, how about his REAL name….Barry….
How about “Mr. President”, you racist, inbred troll.
I will forever cherish the thought of you scumbags gnashing your two remaining teeth over the massive repudiation of your ignorant and evil beliefs.
HA HA.
Black Barry ?