The retail giant Woolworths Limited, "...is one of the largest retailers in Australia with supermarkets, petrol outlets, liquor outlets, electronic outlets and Big W stores across Australia. The company is Australia's largest food retailer and second largest private employer, with 13 million customers each week," according to their website.  The website "www.woolworths.com.au" allows internet users to shop online, view recipes, and read about health tips among other things.

This chocolate looks delicious, but this "confectionary" looks bad.

Here are just two out of a possible 179 mistakes

Confectionary Suggestions: Confectionery, Confectioner, Confectioners, Confections, Confection(appears 4 times)

dietician Suggestions: dietitian, dietitians, dietitian's (appears 2 times)

Thomson Reuters is a well known news service based in the United Kingdom and respected for its objectivity.  It began as a financial market reporting site that now sends reporters all over the world covering current events as well.  According to its website, "Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information ... "  It is ranked in the top 300 of the most visited websites in the world. It is the the 10th most visited site in Europe.  

For such a distinguished company, esteemed for its financial reporting in particular, you'd think they spell "commercial" right! 

Here are just two of a possible 2,385 spelling errors

Comercial Suggestions: Commercial, Commercially, Commercials, Comical (appears one time)

Despatched Suggestions: des patched, des-patched, dispatched, dispatches, dispatcher (appears one time)

Ecolab is a global leader in cleaning, sanitizing, food safety and infection control products and services. They made over $6 billion in global sales in 2007 and are ranked #403 on the Fortune 500 list. The company provides sanitation, pest control supplies, food service equipment repair and parts, services and consulting all around the world. Yet they seem to have a bit of trouble keeping things tidy on their own website; help yourself before you help others, or so the saying goes.

Absorption, misspelled 14 times on their site, is a mess they just may want to clean up.

Here are two of a possible 3,051 errors:

absorbtion Suggestions: absorption, absolution, absorbing
 (appears 14 times)

Commitee Suggestions: Committee, Commuter, Commute, Commit
 (appears 1 times)

 “The information needed to make economic-transaction decisions must be timelier and more accurate than ever before,” states the First American Corporation website. However, this financial services company could certainly take a lesson or two from ANZ, who most certainly understand the importance of getting things right—even when it comes to spelling. "Mortgage. M-o-r-t-g-a-g-e. Mortgage." Accommodation, spelled with TWO c's and TWO m's, is misspelled on the website in the real estate term glossary. 

Here are two of a possible 4,933 errors:

mortage Suggestions: mort age, mort-age, mortgage, montage, Portage
 (appears 5 times)

Accomodation Suggestions: Accommodation, Accommodations, Accommodating, Accommodation's 
 (appears 1 times)

Emcor is a global leader in mechanical and electrical construction, giving life to new structures and sustaining life in existing ones. They had no problems winning awards such as Top 100 Global Outsouring Leader, Top Green 50 Sourcing Vendors, World's Most Admired Company in the Engineering/Construction Category, Top 600 Specialty Contractors and more. A bit more challenging, however, was competing for the Least Amount of Errors on Corporate Website Award, with over 2,000 possible errors and some rather obvious mistakes listed below. What's worse, they're setting a bad example for children by having spelling mistakes on a page designed for kids. The misspelled word is in bold! 

Here are two of a possible 2,368 errors:

Chemcial Suggestions: Chemical, Chemically, Commercial, Chummily, Chinchilla
 (appears 1 times)

Challege Suggestions: Ch allege, Ch-allege, Challenge, Chalker, Challenger
 (appears 3 times)