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[ NNSquad ] Why correct spelling matters on Major Web Sites


Greetings.  We all know that bad spelling on what *should* be a major
Web site page is at least a red flag that the user may not really be
on the "official" site and might have been diverted off to a crooked
replica.

So ... There I was pricing an item on Amazon.com, on their standard
"select a payment method" page -- a page that presumably *vast*
numbers of people see every day -- when I noticed that the word
"difficulties" was misspelled as "dificulties" -- as in 
"Having dificulties?":

http://bit.ly/aWYARO  (Saved Amazon page image - on Lauren's Blog)

I then spent the next minute or so double-checking to make absolutely
sure that I was really on the genuine Amazon site.

Yep, it's Amazon.  Bizarre.  It's a quite short and simple page, 
and I'm surprised to see such an obvious error.  I can't help but
wonder how long it has been present.

Not the end of the world by any means, but a quick fix is still
strongly recommended ...

--Lauren--
NNSquad Moderator