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•Open List: The Hazards of Spell-Czech
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Word of the day.
Some days, there will be a word. That word is the word of the day. Other days shall remain wordless. That's just the way things go.
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My Job--And Welcome To It
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it's rhetorical
words for talking about talk (or writing)
chiasmus, polyptoton, anaphora, parataxis, hyperbole, litotes, deictic, antanaclasis, paronomasia, synecdoche, metonymy, aporia and 28 more...
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mikeloliver's Words
terra nullius, argus-eyed, mpemba effect, cupertino effect, prewalking
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kewpid I thought this had something to do with Apple Inc. Apparently not :( Nov 2, 2007
john Bill Zimmer writes about the Cupertino Effect in the OUPblog today. Nov 2, 2007
sionnach When over-reliance on spellcheckers results in the substitution of the word "Cupertino" for "cooperation" in a document. This specific substitution is believed to be particularly common in European Union documents (for an example, see:
cupertino example )
the last five paragraphs contain several examples.
Using the term in the extended sense, the substitution could be any word from the spellchecker list. Nov 1, 2007