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When I'm not paying attention and just clicking 'change' when spell checking documents / emails my Real Life name can get corrected to "Stud Lover".

As you can imagine on the one occasion this has happened it lead to suitable embarrassment.

So anybody got any stories of amusing typo's or incorrect Spell checking’s in emails sent?

My RL name can become a Gory Ignition when spellchecked. Or, which is perhaps worse, a Gory Eggnog.


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Writing a report the other day about a coal stock pile. Missed the 't'.

Computer sees nothing wrong with this, and I nearly sent the Environment Agency a report emphasising the minimal risks to the environment of a pile of socks. Which then led to five minutes stifling giggles as the surreal, python-esque part of my brain imagined this enormous pile of socks at one of our power stations, carefully being shaped and mounded by bulldozers before being fed into the furnaces.

Maybe that's where all the odd socks go? Are socks carbon neutral?

The other common one is the spellchecker trying to substitute boreholes with brothels Actual example:

The brothels were monitored on a monthly basis and the testing results are presented below. One of the brothels was obstructed at the time of investigation and could not be sampled.

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but that last post reminds me of something I did a couple of months ago. I typed an official report for Somerset County Council, I spell checked it all and then added their address before emailing it as a pdf.

A day or so later, I got a rather hesitant email back from them saying that I'd missed the 'o' out of 'County' in their address! I was soooo embarrassed!

Try typing "Sharon Walker" in a hurry, as I did. I was vaguely aware that I might have introduced an unfortunate "n", so I went back to correct, and in trying to correct introduced a few MORE errors, so that the corrected email went out to Sharon Wankler....

Can't remember whether I was trying to type "Courtaulds" or "Cadburys" (I've worked for both, I think it was the latter...) and my spellcheck decided I meant "cudbear". What the **** is a cudbear?

Similarly, I was always amused that fifteen years ago MacWrite, the first good WYSIWYG word processor, didn't recognise the 'word' WYSIWYG. (What You See Is What You Get - anyone remember the days when what was on the screen bore only a passing relationship to what would come out of the printer?). But even more amusing was what it guessed you were trying to type... HOOSEGOW.

What kind of drunken octopus would you need to be to *try* to type "HOOSEGOW" and end up typing "WYSIWYG"? And apart from that, who uses the word "hoosegow" anyway, apart from the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

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