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[RISKS] Spelling checker not up on U.S. Marines
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 15:01:44 -0700
From: [email protected] (Julie Bird via Mike Linksvayer)
Subject: Spelling checker not up on U.S. Marines (from BONG Bull No. 437!)
Julie Bird at the *Air Force Times* reported a spelling-checker gaffe that
could have caused combat-relevant complications. The spelling checker
rejected the Marine motto 'Semper Fi' and recommended 'Semi-pro fiddles'
instead. The copy editor then accepted the change, although it was caught
before publication.
[Violins? Nonviolence? Puttering around? Meddling? Perhaps the spelling
checker was written for the U.S. Navy, where a fiddle is a something
aboard ship that keeps dishes from sliding around. This case is quite a
stretch; perhaps checkers are getting ever more imaginative these days.
This item from Julie Bird <[email protected]>, abstracted for RISKS, is
excerpted from BONG Bull, The Burned-Out Newspapercreatures Guild's
Newsletter, #437. To subscribe: e-mail to [email protected], with text
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PGN]
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