> > Eventually you'll end up with a majority of people agreeing 
> on what a 
> > word is, even if they spell it wrong.  If you don't get consensus 
> > after a while,
> 
> So spilling of a living language is established by a 
> democratic process now ? ;-)

Sure.  Now if the American will only realise that there's more people that
spelling colour properly than don't we'll be set.
 

> > There was (and maybe still is) a similar method commonly used for 
> > handling data entry years ago.  You'd get two people to 
> type something 
> > in, then run a
> 
> That is, was and always will be valid. 2-out-of-3 even allows 
> error correction.
> Concordance (2 independent readers read the same data) is 
> less useful (no autmatic correction).


Ah, no.  Only 2 people do the typing.  The 3rd person only fixes the errors.
The theory is 2 people won't make the same mistakes.  If the typists do make
the same mistake, the 3rd person won't pick it up.

Tony

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