Sunday, December 3, 2006

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People Can't Spell!

I work at a medical clinic over the summers. One of the departments I work in is the International Travel department which gives people immunizations and information to help them while they're travelling abroad. In addition to having me and the other people at our desk schedule appointments, we also have this place called Centralized Scheduling which gets all the run-off calls from all the departments in the clinic and schedules appointments for them. For some reason it seems that a lot of the people in Centralized don't really know their geography that well. Here is a list of some of their spelling mistakes from the last 3 months. Some of them are pretty understandable, but a few are just ridiculous:

Chili
Figi
Egpty
Telabiv
Tilan (I assume this is Thailand?)
Ethopia
Handoras
Indonsia
S. Afrifica/Nimibia
Bejing
Shanghei
Gutemala
Batzwana
Gualtemala
Equador
Jamaca
Nyrobi
Equidore
Zimbobway
Hondrus
Malie
Bulivia
Guademala
Isreal
Cancau, then the next appointment said Cancaun
Erope/New Zeland/Austraille (Probably my favorite. The guy's 3 for 3 on this one)
Zimbabwai
Numibia
Argintina
Coasta Rica
Gona

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