Cut Out Misspelling The Guillotine Way

A product that is particularly in demand worldwide, especially in an office environment is the INDUSTRIAL GUILLOTINE and the OFFICE GUILLOTINE . The typical consumers will know the exact use for this product, however other ‘non office’ clientele maybe cowering at their desktop whilst reading this article, with the thoughts of a medieval execution device and hideous decapitation.

Perhaps you may have noticed capital letters used to highlight the product GUILLOTINE, however there is a hidden agenda to why I am stressing this word, and all will be revealed after reading this article. Google, the worlds largest and most utilised search engine estimated that 20% of all searches made are mistyped or misspelt, and unfortunately GUILLOTINE is one of these misspelt words.

The word GUILLOTINE is among the many dreaded words people despise to spell, we actually fear these words, and before typing the word into the search box we are overcome by anxiety. Heart racing, sweaty palms, and mouthing the spelling of the word as you type....GOT IT....you click the search button smugly, only to find that you haven’t actually spelt GUILLOTINE correctly, you have actually searched for gelatine, the translucent, tasteless, solid substance derived from animals’ skin and bones. We all find ourselves in this situation, so now is the time to finally admit that people are defeated by the word GUILLOTINE. The five most common ways of misspelling GUILLOTINE are as follows; gillotine, gullotine, guilitine, guiloteen, giloteen.

Maybe I am being a little too critical, GUILLOTINE is a complex word to spell, people do tend to spell things in their own way and this is going to distort their search engine results. In a lot of cases, they may not even realise that they are spelling something wrong or making any mistakes while entering information into the interface search box.

Is it the basis of human error why we as humans misspell keywords when typing in to Google? A common factor into the misspelling of keywords in the search box could be due to people typing a word to way it sounds when pronounced, rather than the actual spelling. Across different regions the way people pronounce and spell words are completely different to one another. For example;

GUILLOTINE pronounced in a Scottish accent ‘Gallitin’
GUILLOTINE pronounced in a Scouse accent ‘Gilliteen’

The differentiation in phonetics between the two contrasting spellings of GUILLOTINE are huge, this would result in a diverse search result to be found by the search engine, as to what the potential customer was looking for.

My aim in writing this article was to embed the correct spelling into readers minds unconsciously, therefore, not only eliminating jagged paper cuttings and trimmings but also to eradicate the misspelling of the word GUILLOTINE when typing it into a search engine...Fingers crossed!!