Corpora: corpus containing spelling errors

[Oxford Text Archive]

> I am searching for a corpus of written English text containing
> spelling errors. Does anybody know where I can find such a corpus?

The Oxford Text Archive holds the Birkbeck spelling error corpus. The
Introduction to the Corpus describes itself as follows:

"The collection  is  divided  into  two  parts.   Nearly  all  the
misspellings  in  the  first  part were produced by native speakers of
English, most of them British though three files contain  misspellings
produced  by  Americans;  those in the second part are from non-native
speakers.   Most  of  the  misspellings  are   spelling   errors,   ie
misspellings  produced  by  people  who  were  not sure of the correct
spelling, rather than slips in typing or  handwriting.   Some  of  the
misspellings  were  collected  in spelling tests or dictations, others
from free writing.  Some are from children, others from  adults;  some
are from people receiving special tuition in reading and writing."

The Corpus is freely available from the OTA web site. If you require any
further help or information please email us!

Best wishes,

Alan Morrison
Oxford Text Archive
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

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