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)

From	To	Status			Notes
		MW	TR	BM
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 issues

Commonwealth spelling

From	To
amongst	among
betwixt	between
centre	center
programme	program
whilst	while

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

Quick Links: Grammatical errors

Wrong article (A)

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 Argonian	an Argonian
a Atmoran	an Atmoran
a Ayleid	an Ayleid
a Imperial	an Imperial
a NPC	an NPC
a Orc	an Orc
a Orcish	an Orcish
a Orsimer	an Orsimer

Wrong article (An)

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 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 errors

Extra / missing / wrong letters

From	To
Anararen	Anarenen
Anareren
and and	and
Ayreen	Ayrenn
cork bulb	corkbulb
cormberry	comberry
cornberry
definately	definitely
Ekash's Locksplitter	Ekash's Lock Splitter
Erabenimsum	Erabenimsun
followings	following
Heartfire	Hearthfire
Kwaama	Kwama
Kwana
Kwarma
legionaire	legionnaire
lock pick	lockpick
Lorhkhan	Lorkhan
Manimarco	Mannimarco
Matze	Mazte
Neravar	Nerevar
Neravarine	Nerevarine
questgiver	quest giver
quest line	questline
seperate	separate
seperated	separated
seperately	separately
Shimerene	Shimmerene
Shimmerine	Shimmerene
siltstrider	silt strider
skillbook	skill book
soulgem	soul gem
stilt strider	silt strider
Stendar	Stendarr
the the	the
Vardenfell	Vvardenfell
Vvardenfel

Apostrophe missing

From	To
Almalexias	Almalexia's
cant	can't
couldnt	couldn't
Dagoth Urs	Dagoth Ur's
didnt	didn't
dont	don't
Elsweyrs	Elsweyr's
Hammerfells	Hammerfell's
High Rocks	High Rock's
its a	it's a
its an	it's an
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
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
shouldnt	shouldn't
Skyrims	Skyrim's
Sotha Sils	Sotha Sil's
Valenwoods	Valenwood's
Vivecs	Vivec's
wont	won't
wouldnt	wouldn't

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

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

Quick Links: Words That Don't Belong

Incorrect words

From	To
free reign	free rein free reign [sic]
based off (of)	based on

Extra words

From	To
are able to is able to	can
are unable to is unable to	cannot
in order to	to
makes an appearance	appears
prior to	before
return back	go back return revert turn back
revert back	go back revert turn back
submerged under	submerged under
there exist	there are
there exists	there is
underneath a	under a
underneath an	under an
underneath the	under the

Extra words: located

From	To
located above	above
located at	at
located behind	behind
located below	below
located beneath	beneath
located beside	beside
located in	in
located near	near
located over	over
located under	under
which are located ...	...
which is located ...	...

Extra words: can be

From	To
can be found roaming	roam / roams
can be found seated	sit / sits
can be found sitting	is / are sit / sits
can be found standing	stand / stands
can be found walking	walk / walks
can be found wandering	wander / wanders
that can be found	found
that can be seen	seen
that can be seen from	visible from
who can be found sitting	seated sitting