Two counties divided by a common language

There are many examples of this but this one really takes the biscuit:

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The headline is still standing. Clearly, it wasn’t an error.

If that was a humorous comment, you should have added a smiley face.

Maybe the penny hasn’t dropped yet.

I think your just in denile.

(Humorously) misnaming a rugby position may be the least of their problems.

I’m not convinced they have a native language, but it certainly isn’t English.

That looks to me like a site that just steals others’ content and runs it through a computer program to replace a few words with synonyms, so they’re less likely to get caught.

The author “Mollie Scanlon” has apprently penned over 10,000 articles for the website since April 12th, 2021.

I wish I could work so hard.

I’m reminded of this classic piece of internet “journalism”;

As Trump would say: “fraudulent statements of current events”

There was some Christian website that refused to use the word “gay,” so they auto-corrected it to “homosexual.” They then had an article about US sprinter Tyson Gay, where they referred to him as “Tyson Homosexual.” Here is one article about it.

Can’t he be both? Maybe he’s a Civil War general, too.

Talking of errors, I just noticed that I wrote ‘counties’ instead of ‘countries’. :exploding_head:

I kind of enjoyed that part

There was a story about how a newspaper decided to use “African-American” rather than “black”. The financial page headline was “IBM’s earnings were in the African-American”.

Similarly, in 1994, TSR (then the publisher of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game) decided to change the term for a class in the game from “mage” to “wizard.” They had a book in development, and they instructed someone to change the occurrences of the word “mage” to “wizard.” Unfortunately, for one section of the book, whoever did it just did a global find-and-replace, resulting in new words like “dawizard” (was “damage”) and “iwizard” (“image”).

I believe that AOL did something similar in an attempt to eliminate bad language. This resulted in such abominations as assassinate being changed to buttbuttinate, and Moby Dick to Moby Richard.

And here I assumed this thread was going to be about Long Island.

I had the same hope.

Oh Miss, I speak Jive.

I remember that, but I can’t find the fact-check for it. ISTR it was The Sacramento Bee, but I’m not sure. I thought I read that someone made the change intentionally to prove a point. Or not.

In case you’re confused about this like me…