“The Cupertino Effect” is the technical term for a correct word that is consistently erroneously replaced by spell-checkers. It’s named for Microsoft Word 97′s habit of changing “co-operation” (a common British spelling) to “Cupertino,” yielding such boners as “a 1999 NATO report mentions the ‘Organization for Security and Cupertino in Europe’;

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Postdatum: 16 december 2008 onder algemeen, Bon Mot du Jour, gezegden, jargon, neologismen, nerdspeak, taalvauten, usa.
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