Misspelling Bee

Today's death match is near and dear to me.

Literally.

I live near the Smoky Mountains, so I see the misspellings of S-M-O-K-Y all the time. In fact, I've come to expect it. But I don't have to like it.

Just to be sure we're all together, here's a picture of the welcome sign:

There is no E in Smoky. And yet we see that a sizable percentage of searchers include the E. That's the most common error, but just for fun I decided to see if there are any more. Here's a list:

Smoky - Good

Smokey - Bad

Smokee - Bad

Smokie - Bad

Thankfully these others get little traffic. Could we be making some progress?

Now the question "Why would they keep doing this if it's not spelled that way?" begs to be asked. Well, my amateur opinion is there are many websites that misspell it too. So we have a loop of misspellings finding misspellings that feeds on itself. In essence the "I found it like that so it must be right" thing takes over.

I'm sure this is not the only case. Do you have a similar situation? Let me know and I'll do what I can to help you expose your favorite abuse too.