Please be careful with product name spelling

[Mia]

I get that some people have trouble with spelling and it has nothing to do with their intelligence, but if a product name is spelled incorrectly it won't show up in a search. Please, check your coupons/ads/products and make sure you are spelling the name correctly so that others can find your post in a search.

Thanks, OP. Very good point.

Actually, English is my third language and second foreign language, and I find OP's point very useful and not disrespectful at all.

Being a teacher I can say that that's even good for non-English speakers, they'll improve their language skills. And the thing is not in a Greek origin word Multibionta (though this word is also can be spelt incorrectly, it depends on the mother tongue of the poster), but also in other words as well.

Well, shorlty said, revision is mother of learning

[butterflies114]

keep in mind A LOT of people on this site speak another language and aren't always fluent in english. I find this thread kind of disrespectful for the people here who have trouble with english.....

I don't find this thread disrespectful at all. Aren't the majority of Brand names the same in any language? Crest is still Crest in another language and Olay is still Olay in another language. They are product names just like the first names of people they aren't translated into another language.

[Mia]

I don't find this thread disrespectful at all. Aren't the majority of Brand names the same in any language? Crest is still Crest in another language and Olay is still Olay in another language. They are product names just like the first names of people they aren't translated into another language.

Well, actually, not all the languages have the same pronunciation for brand names. E.G., IKEA is pronounced with [ai] whereas in Russian the "I" [ai] in IKEA is pronounced as [i]. So if somebody is Russian he (she) can even write "Iekea" or "Ekea".

But still I do think that people have to verify the correct spelling of the word. Though sometimes there are just misprints but in this case they can just edit the subject of their post.

[FallenPixels]

I thought of an example to make my previous post make more sense, there are people that spell hamburger incorrectly in their everyday spelling, therefore when talking about Hamburger Helper, it too is wrong and they would never think to look it up because it is a regular word for them

[abbasgirl]

It doesn't hurt, but some people are dyslexic or are posting about something they may have seen in store and don't have in front of them and we all know how upset some people can get when spelling mistakes are pointed out

I don't think we need to be correcting each other's spelling at all. I think the OP's point was that we should (to the best of our ability) double check our own spelling when writing product names in the titles of our threads. Mistakes will still happen and we'll all be OK if they do. It's just a reminder that if we all do our best, the search feature will run a lot more smoothly.

[steph.y]

I don't think we need to be correcting each other's spelling at all. I think the OP's point was that we should (to the best of our ability) double check our own spelling when writing product names in the titles of our threads. Mistakes will still happen and we'll all be OK if they do. It's just a reminder that if we all do our best, the search feature will run a lot more smoothly.

Well put. Regardless of what language we speak or what level of skill we have when it comes to spelling, lots of people rush when typing on the internet and it never hurts to double check.

[gaiagirl67]

I don't think we need to be correcting each other's spelling at all. I think the OP's point was that we should (to the best of our ability) double check our own spelling when writing product names in the titles of our threads. Mistakes will still happen and we'll all be OK if they do. It's just a reminder that if we all do our best, the search feature will run a lot more smoothly.

Thanks, abbasgirl, that clarifies what I was trying to say. I am not insulting anyone's intellgence, use of English or spelling, just trying to say that the search tool is more effective if brand names are spelled correctly.