Ares
Analyzing traffic logs of my favorite site – OfficialAres.com – is something that I find disturbingly interesting. I was paying particular attention to the variety of words that visitors use in the search engines to reach the site. The correct spelling – Ares – is by far the most common spelling, as we would perhaps expect.
Next come Aries and Aires. Both ‘real’ words from the English perspective, and both, interestingly, mostly coming from visitors that live in countries in Latin America. The location suggests that this misspelling is more than a coincidence and, accordingly, one must assume that the word Ares sounds a little different to those in Latin America than it does to our English speaking ears.
Arez is a spelling most often coming from the French visitors, while Areas comes from Greece and the surrounding areas (pun intended).
Some more interesting spellings – slightly less common – are those like Aeres, Aris and Aers. Mostly we reckon that these are just genuine misspellings and there’s very little that can be read from any of them. Spellings like Aers will fairly clearly come from occasions where the typist hits the ‘e’ and ‘r’ keys too quickly – and consequently get them the wrong way round. Others might just occur when someone misunderstands the Ares name.
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