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...but sometimes my fellow human beans make it really difficult.
For example. There's a singer/songwriter. Fairly famous. Joel Garreau, in his book The Nine Nations of North America, calls him, "The poet laureate of The Islands." (Although I'd put in Derek Walcott. But hey.)
I'm talking about Jimmy Buffett.
Note that there are two Ts in his name. Which is how he's spelled his name all his fifty-plus years.
But for some reason -- perhaps related to the way my mom used to call Midland "Midlands" all the time -- a substantial portion of people keep misspelling Jimmy's name as "Buffet".
Maybe they're all just hungry. :)
How large a portion? Check this out:
Do an interest search on LJ for Jimmy Buffett. The right spelling. Results, 489 matches.
Do an interest search on LJ for Jimmy Buffet. The wrong spelling. Results?
338 matches.
Which would be 40% of the over 800 people listing the guy.
Oh, well. Jimmy, we hardly knew ye.
For example. There's a singer/songwriter. Fairly famous. Joel Garreau, in his book The Nine Nations of North America, calls him, "The poet laureate of The Islands." (Although I'd put in Derek Walcott. But hey.)
I'm talking about Jimmy Buffett.
Note that there are two Ts in his name. Which is how he's spelled his name all his fifty-plus years.
But for some reason -- perhaps related to the way my mom used to call Midland "Midlands" all the time -- a substantial portion of people keep misspelling Jimmy's name as "Buffet".
Maybe they're all just hungry. :)
How large a portion? Check this out:
Do an interest search on LJ for Jimmy Buffett. The right spelling. Results, 489 matches.
Do an interest search on LJ for Jimmy Buffet. The wrong spelling. Results?
338 matches.
Which would be 40% of the over 800 people listing the guy.
Oh, well. Jimmy, we hardly knew ye.
