Cupertino effect

English

Etymology

Named for the fact that some older computer spellcheckers did not have knowledge of the word cooperation, and when a user typed it in the document, the spellchecker automatically replaced it not with co-operation, but with Cupertino, a name of a city in northern California and headquarters of Apple, Inc.[1]

Noun
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Cupertino effect

  1. (computing, software) The replacement, by a spell checker, of words that it interprets as being misspelled, by words which are still incorrect in context.
    • 2015, Arhlene A. Flowers, Global Writing for Public Relations‎, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Although computer dictionaries have improved, the Cupertino effect still creates havoc.

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References
  1. Ben Zimmer (2007 November 1) “When Spellcheckers Attack: Perils of the Cupertino Effect”, in OUPBlog‎

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