[Thanks to anon]
Autocorrect Follies, Pogue article.
if you type “holy moly,” you wind up with, believe it or not, “holy molybdenum.” (“Molybdenum [noun]: the chemical element of atomic number 42, a brittle silver-gray metal of the transition series, used in some alloy steels.” Don’t you hate it when your phone is smarter than you are?)
And here are some auto-correct samples from Wired. But frankly, Pogue's article has many more, and better ones. He used his immense Twitter audience to help compile them. (I get a headache just thinking about sorting through, selecting, and editing the thousands of responses he must have gotten.)
He has people to do that for him. he once said to me, "I have people to do that for me." Oh, wonderful. Another apposite word verification. Terse.
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