Cross posted with my George Mason University blog.

Several years ago I wrote a piece for my students to remind them that they should not blindly trust spell check. A publishing house in Australia is learning that lesson the hard way.

Hot water over spell check

PENGUIN Group Australia turns over $120 million a year from printing words but a one-word misprint has cost it dearly. The publishing company was forced to pulp and reprint 7000 copies of Pasta Bible last week after a recipe called for "salt and freshly ground black people" — instead of pepper — to be added to the spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto. The exercise will cost Penguin $20,000, the head of publishing, Bob Sessions, said. At $3300 a letter, it’s a pricey typo. Rest of story

And here is my little contribution…

Don’t Depend on Spell Check

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