My phone and iPad are forever doing autocorrects I don’t immediately catch (yes I know I can turn it off, but…) It just changed my son “celebrated” to my son “elaborated” in another post. That one wasn’t particularly amusing, but wondered what posters’ funniest autocorrects were. Please share. I am so tired of autocorrects. Time to find some funny ones.
School “lust” instead of school “list”
Way back in the day, DS was writing a report on WordPerfect about a trip to Niagara Falls and his ride on Maid of the Mist. The software thought “maid” was an inappropriate term and recommended substituting “somestic worker”.
Yup, I was going to suggest lust for list as well! And while it is autocorrecting, how come it can’t figure out that “s” by itself is s typo for “a”.
My D2 was in an English class where the class read “The Bacchae” (Greek tragedy). One kid wrote a paper and it autocorrected Bacchea to “backhoe” all the way through. The teacher dryly suggested proofreading when he handed it back.
Have the same “a” vs “s” problem. Explaining to my brother about autopay on my mother’s card accounts kept turning into “because of the autopsy.”
On a client proposal, a mis-type of “wharehouse” got corrected to “whorehouse.” Luckily, not my proposal.
Nephew and niece-in-law were texting back and forth about getting ready for their upcoming trip to Lake Tahoe.
Nephew: Do we need anything in terms of errands?
NIL: We still need to pick up some cheap whores.
Nephew: Interesting.
NIL: LOL! OARS!!
Nephew: I appreciate that, but I was actually looking forward to seeing YOU!
My oldest d rescued a tittle the other day from the road. You would think turtle would be the more common word. Mr Tittle is now safely across the road.
My DH was at a meeting when I texted him about attending a bris. But Bris kept coming out as breasts. Hope no one else at the meeting saw the texts.
was at the store Shopko looking for something for my kid; texted him, but auto correct changed the store name to shoplifting. He thought i was crazy.
I have sort of an unusually spelled name that spellcheck changes to lesbian. So, I get the occasional ‘hi lesbian’ texts. Still makes me laugh every time.
I have a son with chronic health issues. So I am all the time creating texts using the word “sick” to send to teachers and scout leaders…Let’s just say I am looking for another word that means the same thing, bc autocorrect gets me in trouble every time.
^^^ Try “ill.”
Also had the warehouse vs whorehouse problem in a group term paper- luckily we discovered it in time. Also- once my brother texted me to ask the name of my espresso maker- I didn’t notice when autocorrect changed Saeco to sarcoma, which would be a really bad name for a coffee maker…
I have taken to dictating emails and texts. My family is used to getting a text, followed by another with a correction of the weird autocorrects in the preceeding text. I just dictated one and said something about needing to see who did something. It came out as “who dead”.
Friend posted on Facebook via iphone (for all the world to see), a good wish to a friend along the lines of " may you find peace and serenity in Sonoma"… She was mortified when her kids alerted her it had auto-corrected to “Sodomy”.
I asked S what he wanted for dinner and it corrected to “donner”. Lost my appetite.
Also an autocorrect changed a friend’s name from Susan to “Suspect”. Not sure who my iPhone thinks I hang out with.
I was proofreading a friend’s paper for health class and found that his topic was about people “snuggling” with mental illness!
When my daughter was in high school, I tried to text my grandmother that my daughter’s prom date was “not her boyfriend but just a boy she’s friends with.” It came out as “just a boy she grinds with.”