From Wikipedia

[ammichaels]

List of notable misspellings, including some that stuck:

• Zenith - Arabic zamt was misspelled by scribes.
  
• Camel-and-needle-eye proverb - Translators from Hebrew into Greek confused cable with camel.
  
• Cocoa - from cacao (misspelling also influenced by coco). Many foreign languages and foreigners speaking English still use "cacao".
  
• Hoodlum - first appeared as a pseudonym in a newspaper article, whose editor had misread "Noodlum" (the author's reversal of this wrongdoer's real surname, Muldoon).
  
• Google - intentional misspelling of googol.
  
• Potatoe - misspelling of "potato" mistakenly prepared for a classroom spelling bee hosted by Dan Quayle.
  
• Odelay - Beck dictated the title he had chosen to the person writing down the name of his next album, originally to be titled Órale (Spanish for "tell me").
  

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misspelling)