Worst spellcheck error of the year.
Jun 9th 2015, 10:57 pm
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Worst spellcheck error of the year.
Newspaper celebrates MLB's first amphibious pitcher - SBNation.com
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I think a Year End Award is called for.
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Jun 10th 2015, 12:00 am
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Re: Worst spellcheck error of the year.
And that's an AP article, yikes.
Jun 10th 2015, 4:49 am
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Re: Worst spellcheck error of the year.
Newspaper celebrates MLB's first amphibious pitcher - SBNation.com
Please add your faves.
I think a Year End Award is called for.
Please add your faves.
I think a Year End Award is called for.
My own was in a school test when I put that a mushroom was a type of fugitive rather than fungi....
Jun 10th 2015, 11:10 am
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Re: Worst spellcheck error of the year.
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.
Jun 10th 2015, 11:12 am
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Re: Worst spellcheck error of the year.
That's more Freudian that WordStar ... 
Jun 10th 2015, 12:58 pm
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Re: Worst spellcheck error of the year.
Also a fan of the BBC's unfortunate renaming of the large hadron collider.
Jun 10th 2015, 1:07 pm
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Re: Worst spellcheck error of the year.
Autocorrect is my worst enema
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Jun 10th 2015, 5:10 pm
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Re: Worst spellcheck error of the year.
Haha fantastic headline. Love it.
Jun 10th 2015, 6:26 pm
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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.
Jun 10th 2015, 6:39 pm
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Re: Worst spellcheck error of the year.
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. 
Jun 10th 2015, 6:40 pm
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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.
I like that one.
