The Cupertino effect is the tendency of spell checkers to replace misspelled words and words that are not in the dictionary with the wrong.
This term refers to the word "collaboration" of English that is not forged which is often changed to "Cupertino" by an older spell checker with a dictionary containing only hyphenated variants, "cooperation". Cupertino is a city in California, often used as a metonym for Apple Inc.
"Cupertino" has been in the dictionary used by Microsoft Word since at least 1989. Lack of vigilance in post-spell-check editing can result in even official documents containing phrases like "South Asian Association for Cupertino Regional" and "presentations on African-Cupertino Germany".
Benjamin Zimmer from Thinkmap, Inc. and the University of Pennsylvania have collected many examples of such mistakes, including "definite" ("spelling" surely ")" challenging "," DeMeco Ryans "with" Demerol "(in the New York Times ) , "Voldemort" with "Voltmeter" (Denver Post) , and "Muttahida Qaumi Movement" replaced with "Muttonhead Quail Movement" (Reuters).
Users do not always need to choose the wrong word to appear in the document. In WordPerfect 9 with factory default settings, unknown words close enough to one known word are automatically replaced with that word. The current version of Microsoft Word is configured for misspelled words automatically "automatically" when the user is typing. Smartphones with a dictionary-supported virtual keyboard automatically replace the probability of errors with dictionary words.
Video Cupertino effect
See also
- Predictive text - discusses textonyms, words with the same keypad sequence that might get confused in SMS
- Scunthorpe problem - a positive error in an indecent filter
Maps Cupertino effect
References
External links
- Cupertino spell spell at the Cupertino Courier spellchecker , Hugh Biggar, 2006.
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