User:Salamangkero/Adopt-a-typo

Inspired by the Adopt-a-typo project on Wikipedia, this keeps track of recurring typos in the wiki as well as persistent but easily-searchable grammatical errors. Corrections for these mistakes are usually tagged as minor edits.

Adopt-a-typo (TES3)Edit

From	To	Status			Notes
From	To	MW	TR	BM	Notes
Ald-ruhn	Ald'ruhn	in progress	no work needed	done	See UESPWiki:Spelling.
brandish(es) / wield(s)	has / hold(s) / use(s)	in progress			Not a typo but the wrong verbs for most NPC pages
Cyrodiilic / Cyrodilic / Cyrodillic Brandy	Cyrodiilic / Cyrodilic Brandy	in progress	no work needed	no work needed	Use Cyrodiilic Brandy when referring to the potion item (eg. Wares section of NPCs). The only exceptions are dialogs, journal entries and topics that use Cyrodilic Brandy [sic].
~~eggmine~~	~~egg mine~~	in progress	no work needed	no work needed	Wow, this is actually difficult. Except for the Gnisis Eggmine (place), the Gnisis Eggmine (quest) and the Pudai Eggmine (quest), all other mines are referred to as ??? Egg Mine. However, dialogues and journal entries use both egg mine and eggmine. I'll stop working on this for now.
Falvilo's Endeavor	Falvillo's Endeavor	done	no work needed	no work needed	Use Falvillo's Endeavor when referring to the ship. The only exceptions are console codes and dialogs that use Falvilo's [sic] Endeavor.
Grief	Greef	done	no work needed	no work needed
locked and trapped	locked (10) and trapped	done	no work needed	no work needed	For now, just removing the hovertext (not mobile-friendly) Later, I'll change them to read more organically (eg. 10pt locked chest, a door with a trap and a 10pt lock, etc.)
locked chest	locked (10) chest	in progress	done	done
locked door	locked (10) door	in progress	done	done
He trains ..., ..., and Axe.	He trains ..., ..., and Axe.	in progress			Same as above; hovertext (ie. <span>) doesn't show up anyway, being overridden by <a> tooltip
...calmed or snuck up on...		in progress	no work needed	no work needed	Currently working on a template for normal and hostile trainers alike.

Quick Links: Common spelling issuesEdit

Commonwealth spelling
From	To
amongst	among
armour	armor
betwixt	between
centre	center
colour	color
councillor	councilor
jewellery	jewelry
levelled	leveled
levelling	leveling
programme	program
saviour	savior
travelled	traveled
traveller	traveler
travelling	traveling
whilst	while

Commonwealth spelling (-se vs. -ze)
From	To
analyse	analyze
minimise	minimize
minimised	minimized
minimisation	minimization
paralyse	paralyze
realise	realize
realised	realized
realisation	realization
recognise	recognize
recognised	recognized

Intercardinal Directions
From	To
north-east	northeast
north-eastern	northeastern
north-west	northwest
north-western	northwestern
south-east	southeast
south-eastern	southeastern
south-west	southwest
south-western	southwestern

Misspellings w/ Redirects
From	To
Akhulakhan	Akulakhan
Akos Kazas	Akos Kasaz
Antecedants ^{^[1]}	Antecedents
Cammona Tong	Camonna Tong
Chilldrender	Chillrender
Colussus	Colossus
Tree-Minder Xohaneel	Treeminder Xohaneel
Tzinghalis' Tower	Tzinghalis's Tower
Vlastrus	Vlastarus
Wake Walker's	Wake Walkers'
Windhelm Reveller	Windhelm Reveler

^Misspelled in Morrowind and Skyrim

Quick Links: Grammatical errorsEdit

Double words
From	To
and and	and
at at	at
but but	but
for for	for
in in	in
of of	of
on on	on
the the	the
with with	with

Wrong article (A + silent H)
From	To
a heir	an heir
a heirloom	an heirloom
a herb	an herb
a herbal	an herbal
a homage	an homage
a honest	an honest
a honestly	an honestly
a honor	an honor
a honorable	an honorable
a honorably	an honorably
a hour	an hour
a hourglass	an hourglass
a hourly	an hourly

Wrong article (A + vowel)
From	To
a Aedra	an Aedra
a Aedric	an Aedric
a Akaviri	an Akaviri
a Aldmer	an Aldmer
a Aldmeri	an Aldmeri
a Altmer	an Altmer
a Altmeri	an Altmeri
a amulet	an amulet
a Argonian	an Argonian
a Atmoran	an Atmoran
a Ayleid	an Ayleid
a encounter	an encounter
a Imperial	an Imperial
a NPC	an NPC
a Orc	an Orc
a Orcish	an Orcish
a Orsimer	an Orsimer
a owned	an owned
a unlocked	an unlocked

Wrong article (An + long U)
From	To
an unanimous	a unanimous
an uniform	a uniform
an uniformly	a uniformly
an union	a union
an unique	a unique
an uniquely	a uniquely
an unison	a unison
an unit	a unit
an united	a united
an unity	a unity
an usable	a usable
an use	a use
an useful	a useful
an useless	a useless
an user	a user
an utensil	a utensil
an usual	a usual
an usually	a usually

Wrong article (An + Consonant)
From	To
an Bosmer	a Bosmer
an Bosmeri	a Bosmeri
an Breton	a Breton
an Chimer	a Chimer
an Cyrodiil	a Cyrodiil
an Daedra	a Daedra
an Daedric	a Daedric
an Dark Elf	a Dark Elf
an Dunmer	a Dunmer
an Dunmeri	a Dunmeri
an Dwarven	a Dwarven
an Dwemer	a Dwemer
an Falmer	a Falmer
an High Elf	a High Elf
an Khajiit	a Khajiit
an Khajiiti	a Khajiiti
an Kothringi	a Kothringi
an Maormer	a Maormer
an Nede	a Nede
an Nedic	a Nedic
an Nord	a Nord
an Nordic	a Nordic
an Reachman	a Reachman
an Redguard	a Redguard
an ring	a ring
an Snow Elf	a Snow Elf
an Wood Elf	a Wood Elf
an Yokudan	a Yokudan

Wrong verb plurality
From	To
there are one	there is one
there is a few	there are a few
there is few	there are few
there is many	there are many
there is several	there are several
there is three	there are three
there is two	there are two
there was a few	there are a few
there was few	there are few
there was many	there are many
there was several	there are several
there was three	there are three
there was two	there are two
there were one	there was one

Quick Links: Typographical errorsEdit

Extra / missing / wrong letters
From	To
Ald'rhun	Ald'ruhn
Alesia	Alessia
Allesia
Allessia
Alesian	Alessian
Allesian
Allessian
Anararen	Anarenen
Anareren	Anarenen
availible	available
avalable
avalible
avaliable
Ayreen	Ayrenn
cork bulb	corkbulb
cormberry	comberry
cornberry ^{^[1]}	comberry
definately	definitely
diety	deity
dieties	deities
Domninion	Dominion
Ekash's Locksplitter	Ekash's Lock Splitter
Erabenimsum	Erabenimsun
firts	first
followings	following
Haalu	Hlaalu
Haynekhtamet	Haynekhtnamet
Haynekhthamet
Haynektamet
Haynekthamet
Haynektnamet
Heartfire	Hearthfire
Karrold	Karrod
Kwaama	Kwama
Kwana
Kwarma
legionaire	legionnaire
lock pick	lockpick
Lorhkhan	Lorkhan
Malcath	Malacath
Manimarco	Mannimarco
Matze ^{^[2]}	Mazte
Miscarand	Miscarcand
Neravar	Nerevar
Nerever	Nerevar
Neravarine	Nerevarine
Nereverine	Nerevarine
questgiver	quest giver
quest line	questline
Sarethy	Sarethi
scryed	scried
seperate	separate
seperated	separated
seperately	separately
Shimerene ^{^[3]}	Shimmerene
Shimmerine	Shimmerene
siltstrider	silt strider
skillbook	skill book
soulgem ^{^[4]}	soul gem
Stendar	Stendarr
Staff of Magus	Staff of Magnus
stilt strider	silt strider
Vardenfell	Vvardenfell
Vvardenfel	Vvardenfell

Apostrophe missing
From	To
Almalexias	Almalexia's
arent	aren't
cant	can't
childs	child's
couldnt	couldn't
couldve	could've
Dagoth Urs	Dagoth Ur's
didnt	didn't
dont	don't
Elsweyrs	Elsweyr's
Hammerfells	Hammerfell's
hadnt	hadn't
havent	haven't
High Rocks	High Rock's
isnt	isn't
its a	it's a
its an	it's an
its been	it's been
its not	it's not
its one	it's one
its said	it's said
its so	it's so
its the	it's the
Ive	I've
lets be	let's be
lets do	let's do
lets go	let's go
lets have	let's have
lets not	let's not
Morrowinds	Morrowind's
Nerevars	Nerevar's
nwah	n'wah
shouldnt	shouldn't
shouldve	should've
Skyrims	Skyrim's
Sotha Sils	Sotha Sil's
swit	s'wit
thats	that's
theyll	they'll
theyre	they're
theyve	they've
Valenwoods	Valenwood's
Vivecs	Vivec's
wasnt	wasn't
werent	weren't
weve	we've
wont	won't
wouldnt	wouldn't
wouldve	would've
youd	you'd
youll	you'll
your a	you're a
your an	you're an
your the	you're the
youre	you're
youve	you've

Extra / missing / incorrect punctuation
From	To
1x	1×
2x	2×
3x	3×
4x	4×
5x	5×
6x	6×
7x	7×
8x	8×
9x	9×
10x	10×
aka.	a.k.a.
eg.	e.g.
get's	gets
ie.	i.e.
in game	in-game
it's own	its own
let's her	lets her
let's him	lets him
let's it	lets it
let's me	lets me
let's them	lets them
let's us	lets us
let's you	lets you
pre-defined	predefined

^Morrowind has one misspelled leveled list.
^Contributors might have been confused by the misspelled Matze in Skyrim.
^With the exception of Aicantar of Shimerene, whose work Before the Ages of Man is heavily-referenced in lorespace.
^Morrowind uses soulgem in item IDs; Redguard has soulgem in conversation topics; soulgem is also used in books.

To DoEdit

Consider examples in description of {{Sic}}.
Consider other documented typos in Category:Redirects from Misspellings.

Quick Links: Words used incorrectlyEdit

Words used incorrectly
From	To
based off (of)	based on
could of	could have
free reign	free rein free reign [sic]
must of	must have
should of	should have
thankfully ^{^[1]}	fortunately luckily
would of	would have

^This word is often misused to convey favorable or fortuitous conditions as opposed to an abundance of gratitude.

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