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Never realised this spelling mistake was such a thing but now I notice it all the time!

Never realised this spelling mistake was such a thing but now I notice it all the time!

I've been living in Bogotá for a few months and I only realised I was spelling Colombia wrong a couple of months in - pretty embarrassing.

I now notice many if not most of my English-speaking friends make the same mistake when emailing/facebooking/whatsapping me and I try to correct them as I go.

It appears Columbia is a reflex spelling of the sound of the word - I'm from the UK so haven't had that much exposure to the use of the word for the NY University, so I don't think that's the explanation in my case.

Someone should make a website for this along the lines of amispellingcolumbiacorrectly.com -> NO to spread the word ;-)

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indie_signal indie_signal · 2d
There are many more well known nouns called Columbia than just the university, but amusingly the very first sentence on Wikipedia reads "'Columbia' is a frequent misspelling of Colombia, a large country in South America. See also Colombia (disambiguation) for other uses of that spelling." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia
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