TITLE: Explaining Spelling Variation of Masturbation and Revealing Their Scope

The Internet is one of the biggest resources around that helps us acquire anything to everything online. Along with the creation of this convenient monster, some challenges have risen that cause confusion and blur the line between correct grammatical usage and accepted use of words. Correct spellings can, sometimes give way to erroneous, but accepted spelling. Let’s take an example of the word, ‘masturbation,’ as this word is usually spelled differently in various countries during online searches.

 

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This information will highlight some of the interesting features and the variation of spellings people use to search for the word ‘Masturbation’ online. According to Google Insights for Search, the rising search volume of the proper word, ‘Masturbation’ has been recorded in Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Lebanon, Kenya, Senegal, Mauritius, Cameroon, Nigeria, Pakistan and Ghana.

Similarly, the same stuff has been searched for with erroneous spellings, ‘Mastubation’ with rising search volume in the countries like Nigeria, South Africa, Malaysia, India, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, France, Singapore and Canada, respectively. On the other hand, another incorrect spelling discovered online for masturbation with rising search volume was ‘Masterbation,’ which has been recorded in Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, United States, Canada, Kenya, New Zealand, Jamaica, Australia and Sri Lanka.

 

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Coming back to the main point, most people are not aware of the meaning of masturbation. Well, it actually means stroke genitals or in other words, to give yourself or somebody else a sexual pleasure by stroking his/her genitals – usually to orgasm, is properly known as masturbation.

When it comes to most of the Asian countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Singapore, english is not the first language and it leads to variations in spellings. So, they try typing and searching for the same word erroneously as masterbation and mastubation. You might also be wondering why even more educated societies search for words with typos and spell errors. The possible explanation may be the variation in phonetic pronunciation. What is interesting is the number of people searching for the same thing misspelled the same way.

There might also be some other factors involved in it; one among which is the Search Engine Optimization factor which is widely being used to up-rank sites in major search engines like Yahoo, Google and Bing. Now, the question is why they use miss-spelled words like masterbation and mastubation instead of masturbation in text? It is used to simply capture audience a global audience.

For the purposes of this site we will occasionally substitute the word masterbate for masturbate and masterbation for masturbation.