Speling, or you say caesarean, I say caesarian

I always mention in literature searching classes - if you don ' t find many results, check your spelling.  And my slide says speling, ha ha. It all started with a tweet from Janice Kung, Health Sciences Librarian, @janicekung, at the University of Alberta, pointing out the need to search for typos and spelling mistakes when searching the literature.  Tom Roper, retired health librarian, @tomroper, who I follow, replied, which is how I saw it, andincluded his video on the topic.  The video explores the reasons for some misspellings, including authors thinking a word is Latin in origin when it is Greek.  One of Tom ' s examples is caesarean, which I have to admit is a word I always have to think about when spelling or searching.  Being midwifery librarian, it ' s a word I encounter quite often.Another example mentioned by Megan Kennedy, @MeganSansH, also a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, was the various spellings of Cinahl.I had noticed before when searching that you sometimes retrieve results when you spell something incorrectly.  But I had not thought of the implications of that.  If you are doing a systematic review, shouldn ' t you therefore include typos and spelling mistakes?  What would you miss if you did not include accidental spelling variants?  How would you know what they were?In Cinahl, yesterday: Cinahl - 48999 resultsCinhal - 664Cinalh (not thoug...
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