I follow:
So when I made that last list, I made a terrible mistake: I only included misspellings of “bieber” that were alphabetically sorted past “bieber” itself. There are actually about twice as many of them that come before “bieber”. Hence this addendum.
By the way, these lists are pulled from the search strings entered into our Music Pets game. Maybe I should have mentioned that earlier. Also, I am not going through these (just) for shits and giggles. I’m trying to improve customer experience by fixing the search strings that manage to stump our matching algorithm.
They manage to stump our matching algorithm a lot, by the way.
I like a lot of these, but my favorite is definitely #125. Something about someone not only throwing in an extra silent “h”, but staring at the textedit field for a couple of seconds, sensing that something’s not quite right, pondering … and then suddenly saying “fuck it, I’m putting another one in!” and resolutely pounding the “h” and Enter keys in quick succession … it really gets to me somehow. And thanks to my little project, the next time someone does this they will be rewarded with a match of “Justin Bieber” instead of “Justin Timberlake”. Yay.
On a completely unrelated note, I don’t think I’m getting out nearly enough these days.
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