# Hysterical website-autocorrect fail

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hysterical-website-autocorrect-fail/573561>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 5, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hysterical-website-autocorrect-fail/573561 "2011-03-05T04:05:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hysterical-website-autocorrect-fail/573561/21 "2011-03-06T19:44:26Z")

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How do you misspell “NyQuil” to get it to autocorrect into “Muslim”?

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hysterical-website-autocorrect-fail/573561/22 "2011-03-06T20:59:26Z")

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My iPhone autocorrects “NyQuil” to “Bhakti”.

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**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hysterical-website-autocorrect-fail/573561/23 "2011-03-06T21:45:58Z")

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> [@Hedda\_Rosa](#):
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> To screen capture on your iphone you hold down the Home button and then click the sleep button once (you’ll see a flash of white when it works). The screen cap will then be in your photos and you can e-mail/upload it anywhere.

Cool, thanks.

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hysterical-website-autocorrect-fail/573561/24 "2011-03-07T00:32:16Z")

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Sort of reminds me of my favourite _Dilbert_ cartoon

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> Worker) And for your information my name is MYRON not MORON, next time please be more careful when you use spellcheck
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> Pointy Haired Boss) I have spellcheck?

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hysterical-website-autocorrect-fail/573561/25 "2011-03-07T04:07:14Z")

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> [@Hedda\_Rosa](#):
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> To screen capture on your iphone you hold down the Home button and then click the sleep button once (you’ll see a flash of white when it works). The screen cap will then be in your photos and you can e-mail/upload it anywhere.

So _that’s_ why I have all these random screen captures in my iPhone photos collection… I’ve been meaning to look this up but somehow never got around to it. Now I know.

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