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Could someone able to run the WordSmith corpus software check John Macalister's NZ English corpus for a time series of relative prevalence of the kūmara and kumara spellings? A table is probably best, but I can make do with a graph if needed.

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In English, people can often purposefully misspell words, usually for a cutesy effect (as in cat macros - "I can haz cheezburger?" or "ai wubs yu!") or some other effect, usually humorous. Does this effect exist in other languages? How about those that don't follow a Roman alphabet system; what are the equivalents?