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• sazzamook commented on When spellcheckers attack: The Cupertino Effect
  My favourite is Hippocampus suddely morphing into Hippopotamus :D...
• feesh commented on When spellcheckers attack: The Cupertino Effect
  Beloved Aunt anybody?...
• cls commented on When spellcheckers attack: The Cupertino Effect
  I always used to get "goof" as a suggested correction for my ex, Jeff. It made me laugh....
• Doug Nelson commented on When spellcheckers attack: The Cupertino Effect
  I've been using Word almost since v1 (of the Windows version) and it's never auto-replaced a single word for me. Granted nowadays I'll get my docs littered with little red wiggley underscores, but that's the extent of it....
• billstewart commented on When spellcheckers attack: The Cupertino Effect
  I've had a spelling checker offer to correct "management" to "madmen" - it was tempting to let it do so. But I've also had an experience like Flaminica's post #25, where MS Mail spell-corrected my attached document without asking me, so the "Org Chart" I was forwarding to someone not only got everybody's name randomly spell-corrected, but was changed to an "Orgy Chart". Fortunately I was able to send a replacement before the recipient read it......