Cupertino effect
nounEtymology Named for the fact that some older computer spellcheckers did not include the form cooperation and would automatically replace it not with co-operation, but with Cupertino, a name of a city in northern California and headquarters of Apple Inc.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software The replacement, by a spell checker, of words that are real (such as proper nouns or alternate spellings), but missing from its internal dictionary, with words that are starkly incorrect in context.
- Although computer dictionaries have improved, the Cupertino effect still creates havoc.2015, Arhlene A. Flowers, Global Writing for Public Relations, Routledge, →ISBN:
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Broadly The failure of spell checkers to replace incorrectly spelled words with the actually intended words, resulting in miscorrections.
- Derived terms
- Cupertino