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Seriously, Ron Conway doesn't know how to spell "entrepreneur"?? If that's possible, it's awesome, don't get me wrong, but it seems fishy.

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It made me happy to see that someone who must have typed the word 50 jillion times in his life can still get it wrong. It's a weird word.

Indeed. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like it. I have to believe it's intentional -- perhaps a conscious progression of the fluid language. Or maybe he just has a thing against the French.

Either way, if anyone gets the privilege of defining a new spelling for the word, Ron is a good candidate.

I think the community should embrace the new spelling, in appreciation. :)

Possibility that he just made a typo :)

Ten times exactly the same? Occam says it wasn't a typo ;)

Faulty keyboard? ;)

I made a comment to the same effect on this same story, but I've realized that it's actually phonetic given the (mis)pronunciation often heard 'round the Valley. Most people I know say "ahn-treh-preh-noo-er" instead of the more Frenchified "ahn-treh-preh-ner". It's easy to see how one might misspell the former (as RC apparently did).

Nitpick: I wouldn't say the second form has been Frenchified so much as the first form has been Americanized.

I was being ironic.

Ron only needs to help them, and he does so who cares about spelling! Besides, have you seen the atrocity that McClure calls a blog post?

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