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Broken: Trusting spellcheck too much

Why did Reuters refer to Pakistan's "Muttahida Quami Movement" as the "Muttonhead Quail Movement"? Blind use of Outlook's spellcheck.

(See also the similar case of the twelve apostates.)

Hat tip to Paul.


2 Comments:

Yiftach — Aug 20, '09 — 11:49 AM

My favorite thing about this is that the author of the post on revealingerrors.com misspelled "nonsensical" in the last paragraph. He was called on it, too, and hasn't fixed it, despite fixing another error.

Bryant Smith — Sep 2, '09 — 10:15 AM

Hopefully it catches on and MSM media starts talking about this new and powerful movement of the quails.




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