NEWS:

word-coining contest

September 28th, 2006 by Michelle

Hey, this from my brother-in-law, Burl:

An interesting fact that you probably already know….Spellcheck wants to change “michellerichmond” to “malnourishment”. Has there been a word coined to describe such spellcheckisms? You know, like Jon Carroll calls the way you heard a song lyric, compared to the actual lyric, a “mondigreen”. The story goes, he’d heard this song that his mother used to sing about “Lady Mondigreen”. It was years later that he figured out that the song was an Irish folk ballad and they were saying “…he died, and they laid him on the green.” Not Lady Modigreen

Anyway, spellcheck corruptions need a word.

So, does anyone know–is there such a word? And if not, can you come up with one?

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Sans Serif began as a literary blog in September of 2005. Over time it has evolved into a more eclectic venture, with posts on books, politics, current events, literary happenings in the San Francisco Bay Area, publishing news, the writing life, and writing exercises. This blog is written by Michelle Richmond, author of four books of fiction: The Year of Fog, Dream of the Blue Room, The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, and No One You Know (forthcoming, 2008).

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