Spelling Matters –or- I’d Love To Find Your Listing, But Where Is It Really?

Written by WolfNet Technologies November 21st, 2011

Spelling matters. Spelling. Matters. Splingel Tramets. Llispeng mastter. I, J. Hypothetical Person, am house-hunting in, say, mid-Florida. Like most buyers, I will limit my home search to cities that truly exist: Tampa, St. Petersburg, Quincy. I don’t have time to visit both Altoona (feasible) and Altonna (nonexistent). Although it’s clear to me that Satasota signifies Sarasota, I’m not interested in viewing a home that knows not even where it sits. I’m certain this point can be driven home anecdotally. You’ll have to trust me that from mid-Florida alone I have a hundred anecdotes to deploy if need be. For now, some restraint.

I’m confused—not intrigued—by the home in Little Gasparilla Ilsland: Is this a hotbed of disease and we’ve misspelled ‘Illsland’, or is it surrounded by water but years of watching Gilligan have taught us nothing? Eusits may roll more smoothly off the tongue than Eustis, will it help me find your listing online? In the city of Gainesille, does the missing ‘V’ stand for Veracity? Like most queries I write, these seek to benefit you, the home-lister. Any snark is an unfortunate byproduct of the prevalence of these misdeeds, but the driving force is sincere; nobody here wants your listing in Clearwat Er to go unviewed because your thumb went all spacey after t. Your other 30 active listings may have a correctly spelled city, but this homeowner is only selling the botched one. Help us, help the homeowners, help yourselves by keeping your flying fingers in check and editing this supremely important piece of listing information.

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One Response to “Spelling Matters –or- I’d Love To Find Your Listing, But Where Is It Really?”

April says:

December 1, 2011 at 6:21 pm

I see a lot of listings each week, as I invariably run property searches, and there are frequently misspellings in the property descriptions. Misspellings make information more difficult to read at a glance, or make the information confusing. I know this industry is a fast-moving one; yet, if we cannot take the time to do it right, where will we find time for the resultant errors!

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