today's best spelling correction

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:15 AM -0700 6/17/07, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>i-i-i!  New York Times Week in Review, 6/17/07, p. 2:
>
>CORRECTIONS
>
>A graphic  last Sunday about health and safety issues misspelled the
>name of a new diagnosis for the shoulder pain caused by playing
>tennis on Wii, the video game console.  It is acute Wiiitis, not Wiitis.
>
So the formerly robust *C[i]C[i]C[i] orthographic constraint barring
three consecutive identical consonants (responsible for, inter alia,
"wall-less" or "shell-like" as apposed to "windowless" or
"shelflike", and for the haplology in "freest" and the hyphen in
"twee-est") is no longer undominated.  Are there other violations out
there that I've missed?

LH

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