“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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Pieter 't Hoen says
Zo werd mijn gebruik van het woord ‘pluricontinentaal’ verworpen, met als verbeteringssuggesties ‘plurkcontinentaal’ of ‘pleuriscontinentaal’. Geen grap.