Felix Blanke posted on Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:15:07 +0100 as excerpted: > Hi Want, [snip] > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Wang Shilong OT, but... In language circles that's commonly known as a Cupertino, named for the fact that some older spellcheckers didn't know the word cooperation, and would suggest replacing it with Cupertino (the city), instead of the dash- compounded co-operation. So an inappropriate (and often amusing) spellcheck correction is known as a Cupertino, with the phenomenon known as the Cupertino effect. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cupertino_effect (I personally would have named it an "allot", the frequent but inappropriate suggestion to replace the informal "alot", where the suggestion /should/ be the more acceptable "a lot", since that's the case where I first became aware of the phenomenon, and I see "allot" used in the "alot" context frequently enough that I know I'm definitely not the only one to have the problem.) (See also Mondegreen, Snowclone, and Crashblossom (this one too new to appear in wiktionary apparently, but google has it), other christened phenomena of common modern language mistakes.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
