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Inspired by Piaczka's thread about annoying phrases, I have a personal list of misspelled words specifically linked to travel: accommodation (and its variations), itinerary (even more variations).

However, several others have been appearing more often: "I have been pouring over past threads", "a place without hoards of tourists".

Any others you have seen on the travel branches?

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Boarder is of course a correctly spelled word, and one associated with travel. But it is mostly seen here when "border" is intended. A boarder is someone who boards in lodgings.

If you are going to give us more general words like poring and hordes, then I shall give you "led", for which "lead" is annoyingly substituted, I would dare to say more often than not.

On the Iceland branch, we regularly see Porsmork, a misunderstanding of the Icelandic script Þórsmörk, more usually rendered Thorsmork if you don't wish to use the special characters not easily accessed from many keyboards.

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Itinerary has many variants on the TT.

scoodly

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  • Colosseum (versions such as colisseum, coliseum, colloseum etc)
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And that famous museum in Paris -- the Lourve.

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Don't forget the Sacre-Couer (or Cuoer, or Cueor) and accomidation/accommadation...

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On the Eastern Europe branch, we've got St Petersberg, Sophia, Prauge (!) and Hungry.

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Columbia for Colombia is quite common.

A curious note is that Valladolid is rarely spelt rightly in the Western Europe branch but it's usually spelt rightly in the Mexico branch (although I must say I didn't pay much attention to the Mexican branch but when I made it...).

@ansh_jain_47 (#3): According to Wikipedia, [Coliseum|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum] seems to be also right.

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Prolly to many too list.

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#8 Don't you mean Liszt?

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