Random Bits and Pieces

Search for "qurdity" in Google, and you'll probably find around 292 results. Stop, don't go look it up in the dictionary—it's not a word.

It appears that, for many results, the actual PDF displays "quality," but the text Google displays as a result mis-scans the word as "qurdity."However, if you restrict your results to only PDFs, Google finds 119 results, and a search for "qurdity" and "pdf" returns 275 results.

The University Community Urban Center Plan actually displays the word "qurdity" in the PDF, but it seems that the originally scanned text has been replaced by a digital version, so it may reflect the same problem I proposed initially.

Curious.

Just for fun, see if it makes sense to replace "qurdity" with "quality" in the follow excerpts from search results:

• Proposed Water Qurdity Standards For Interstate and intrastate Streams in New Mexico
• enhance the qurdity of renewable resources

And here's one that has many more problems:

• blending sites qn site infrastructure, water resources, air qurdity and noise, socioeconomic resources,. waste management, public and occupationrd health

But what's really puzzling is why a scanner picks up one "quality" but not the other, as shown here:

• Currently, the definitions for Quality, Qurdity Assurance...