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> I took this to mean that he has seen this mistake made multiple times by multiple people, which would indicate an alternate spelling has emerged

"I've seen this happen many times" doesn't mean a new spelling has emerged, by several orders of magnitude. If my pals and I decided to go wander around online forums, spelling "fish" with -sch, that wouldn't make it magically correct.

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>"that wouldn't make it magically correct"

It wouldn't make it standard, but I argue that if the person you mean to receive the message recieves it using that combination of letters, what's considered "correct" by x number of people is irrelevant.

Hence "correcting" someone when you knew what they meant is absurd.

An entire nation has long ago decided to go with this spelling, so I'd say it's quite correct in some circles ;).

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