AUTOCORRECT FAIL OF THE DAY

posted by James Reel

A critic sent me an obviously unproofread review in which his software's spellchecker had changed the name of (admittedly obscure) conductor Fuat Mansurov to "Fat Manure." I do wish people would (1) read their material before they send it into the world and (2) put far less faith in spellcheck and autocorrect features. I learned my lesson the hard way many years ago when I wrote an article about conductor James DePreist and didn't notice that the software had changed every mention of his name to "DePriest." From that moment, I came to regard most of Word's automated functions as little more than, well, fat manure.