Bizarre misspellings by Britons trying to book Travelodge holidays
British adults struggle to spell the UK's biggest cities on search engines
LOODON, Edinburg and Darbie are three of the most common misspellings of British cities that holidaymakers find trickiest to spell.
Around 20 per cent of locations entered into a major travel site visited by one million customers each week are spelled incorrectly.
The UK’s capital cities London, Edinburgh and Cardiff are among the top ten most popular destinations that regularly cause confusion, with the Scottish city posing most problems to Brits' spelling abilities.
Adults seeking to find accommodation in Torquay are also baffled - typing the seaside town as Tourkey and Tourkie.
The historic town of Bath causes trouble, with Barth and Barff among the most common misspellings on the Travelodge website.
Shakila Ahmed, Travelodge spokeswoman, said: "The reason for this could be speed of typing - or it’s more likely to be that people are spelling a location as they think it’s pronounced.
"Some place names may be a preservation of an old spelling that made sense at the time the place was named but has little bearing on life today.
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"The spellings could represent a pronunciation from any century from 1066 onward.
"Our enhanced location prediction search should eliminate this problem and speed up the booking process."
In response to this growing problem of misspelled UK locations, Travelodge has launched a function on its website to predict the location of where people want to stay.
Ms Ahmed added: "From as little as four letters, the Travelodge search box will showcase matching names and Travelodge hotels as a drop down option – making it easier for correctly spelled location entries."
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