Political Spell Checking

by Steven Garrity

This is an actual screenshot from the spell-checking in my Thunderbird email client:

Thunderbird spell checking screenshot: Did you mean Osama?

I guess it’s not just Fox news readers that make the mistake.

To be fair, this is apparently coming from the en_ZW (Zimbabwe English) dictionary. A known bug.

 

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