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Why am is the word "jewelry" incorrectly spelled "jewlery" recently in some esteemed publications?

Asked by jca2 (16290points) August 18th, 2023

Yesterday, I was sitting in the local public library and reading the New York Times magazine from 8/8/2023, which was about the evolution of hip hop in recent history. They had an article about bling, showing some jewelry pieces that hip hop and rap artists have worn. The headline of the printed article spelled “jewelry” as “jewlery.” I was surprised that this mistake made it past the editors, especially because it was a headline and the New York Times is usually better than that.

This morning at home, online, I went to the NY Times site and put “jewlery” into the search, and about 60 hits came up. When I googled the spelling, thinking maybe there was a spelling out there that I’m not aware of, I found the two correct spellings, “jewelry” and jewellry” which is the UK spelling, but nothing showing “jewlery.” When I look now at the online NY Times article about hip hop blind, they have corrected the spelling of “jewelry.”

Why would the incorrect spelling have made it past editors 60 times, as noted above? This is surprising to me, as it’s not an uncommon word.

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