Cupertino effect
English
editEtymology
editNamed 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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- (computing, software) The replacement, by a spell checker, of words that it interprets as being misspelled, by words which are still incorrect in context.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Ben Zimmer (2007 November 1) “When Spellcheckers Attack: Perils of the Cupertino Effect”, in OUPBlog[1]
Further reading
edit- Cupertino effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia