A British academic, tired of correcting the same spelling errors in his students' work year after year, is now recommending that universities simply accept common misspellings, and treat them as if they were normal spelling variants. He has provided a list of ten common misspellings that we should accept to get us started, including "occured" and "thier".

The gentleman in question is a criminology lecturer at Bucks New University (which used to be known as "Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education" -- is "Bucks New University" a variant spelling?).