Scirocco -vs- Sirocco (ebay) was: E-bay Misrep...

[sirocco@telocity.com (Randy B)]

John,
Sounds like this guy might have misspelled the name because he didn't know 
the proper spelling but...
In most dictionaries the definition you will find for Scirocco 
is...."scirocco: variation of sirocco (or) see sirocco"
If you look in some dictionaries you will not even find the word scirocco 
but sirocco is always there.
The definition we all know and love (hot desert wind from Libyan desert 
blowing across the mediterranean) comes from the word "sirocco", someone 
(VW, Giugiaro?) changed it to scirocco for our cars (german spelling, other 
reason, ?????).

What I get a kick out of is when it is spelled scirroco or sirroco or 
sometimes with k instead of c.
It is amazing what you can find on e-bay when you start messing with the 
spelling of words in your searches. 8^)

Randy
aka "Sirocco"
www.myscirocco.org


At 03:57 PM 03/25/2002 -0500, John C. Worden wrote:
>Speaking of idiots; I occasionally do searches on misspellings of Scirocco 
>because
>you never know what you will find, and found a guy selling some stickers 
>he obviously
>made himself that said SIROCCO with a little VW emblem too.  What an 
>idiot.  I did
>email him though and he thanked me for correcting him-rare.
>
>John