The Cupertino effect occurs when a spell checker erroneously replaces correctly spelled words that are not in its dictionary. == Origin == This term refers to the unhyphenated English word "cooperation" often being changed to "Cupertino" by older spell checkers, with dictionaries containing only the hyphenated variant, "co-operation".
The Cupertino effect occurs when a spell checker erroneously replaces correctly spelled words that are not in its dictionary. == Origin == This term refers to the unhyphenated English word "cooperation" often being changed to "Cupertino" by older spell checkers, with dictionaries containing only the hyphenated variant, "co-operation".
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