Worst spellcheck error of the year.
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Worst spellcheck error of the year.
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Newspaper celebrates MLB's first amphibious pitcher - SBNation.com
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My own was in a school test when I put that a mushroom was a type of fugitive rather than fungi....
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GCSE math coursework. Damn auto replace on WordStar changed "secs" to " sex". On all 25 pages
Maths teacher not amused. Word processors were not so common then. The concept of auto replace even less.
Maths teacher not amused. Word processors were not so common then. The concept of auto replace even less.
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Also a fan of the BBC's unfortunate renaming of the large hadron collider.
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Autocorrect is my worst enema
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Re: Worst spellcheck error of the year.
Some years ago I was involved in groundwater monitoring for the Nuclear Industry. Unfortunately the word processor we used at the time insisted on converting the word 'borehole' to 'brothel'. Each report had to be extensively checked before sending to the regulator as no one wanted to report that they regularly sampled the local brothels.
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Imagine if there had been auto-correct back in the 1970s. Betty Slocombe and Nellie Pledge may have ended up using the right words instead of the wrong-uns.
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Re: Worst spellcheck error of the year.
Some years ago I was involved in groundwater monitoring for the Nuclear Industry. Unfortunately the word processor we used at the time insisted on converting the word 'borehole' to 'brothel'. Each report had to be extensively checked before sending to the regulator as no one wanted to report that they regularly sampled the local brothels.