Comments on: When Spellcheckers Attack: Perils of the Cupertino Effect

By: Terminologia etc. » Blog Archive » Correttori ortografici ed effetto Cupertino

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:54:11 +0000

[...] ma è rimasto il termine effetto Cupertino: è descritto in dettaglio da Ben Zimmer nell’OUP blog, con un riferimento all’articolo in cui è apparso inizialmente. [...]

By: Terminologia etc. : Barack Obama, il correttore ortografico e l'effetto Cupertino

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:32:03 +0000

[...] è rimasto il termine effetto Cupertino: è descritto in dettaglio da Ben Zimmer nell’OUP blog, con un riferimento all’articolo in cui è apparso inizialmente. [...]

By: Douglas2

Douglas2 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:42:18 +0000

In response to JP: I’m sure that it is not writers trusting an American spellchecker who spell “organize” with an “ize” ending. It is much more likely to be confident English spellers who override the incorrect correction provided by British editions of Microsoft Word, or less confident ones who nevertheless bother to look up the word in the OED or Fowlers.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:21:26 +0000

I worked in a Government Prosecutions section for many years.

Word spell checker would very sweetly ask me if I meant Persecutions section. Which of course the “clients” would have agreed with.

By: JD

JD — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:33:09 +0000

Working as a sub editor (copy editor) for a UK magazine, I often find American English spellings appearing in copy submitted by our (British) writers. The reason? Writers using a spellchecker based on an American dictionary and believing that they really have spelt ‘organise’ wrongly (for example). Either that or they run through and automatically ‘correct’ all their lovely British English spellings.

Shudder.

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How Do "Miss Steaks" Go Unnoticed? It's Along Story : OUPblog — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:05:35 +0000

[...] week’s column focused on the havoc that automated spellcheckers can wreak when a suggested [...]

By: The English Teacher Blog » Blog Archive » The Cupertino Effect

The English Teacher Blog » Blog Archive » The Cupertino Effect — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:01:59 +0000

[...] Ben Zimmer’s blog on the Cupertino Effect has more examples, as does The Language Log. [...]

By: VL

VL — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:41:44 +0000

When I was in high school (like 20 years ago), there was a memo that was sent around that had a very obvious typo that was caused by the spellchecker. The memo read: “on [whatever date], there is to be no loitering in pubic areas due to preparation for evening events.”

By: Sven DiMilo

Sven DiMilo — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:22:20 +0000

I turned off Word’s spellchecker long ago. I’m a biologist, and my writing just stumps it too often. The last straw was when, in an article about the Sonoran mud turtle, it kept changing the specific epithet of Kinosternon sonoriense to “snootiness.”

By: Jo Ashburn

Jo Ashburn — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:17:20 +0000

Just in case nobody has mentioned it, the probable reason Cupertino was in those spellcheckers to begin with is because that is where the Apple offices are located.