We all make typos and so forth, and don't notice them, and I'm probably worse than most (though since I got the program HotLingo I'm a lot better). And generally that kind of thoimnh doesn't matter a damn.

But when it comes to names of countries and people I think we ought to be a bit more careful.

Just in the last skim I made through the threads I've come across "Iraquis" instead of Iraqis (perhaps people get confused with Iraquois), and Ghandi instead of Gandhi). They are perhaps the most common, but I'm sure people can think of a fewe more that crop up time and again.

It might be a good idea to use Google to check any spellings like that which we aren't sure of.