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Slightly confused by something in Voice 131

aliwibble
aliwibble Posts: 26,474
in General Charlton
Reading through the latest edition of VOTV, and have just got to the "Tragic Spell" item in @Airman Brown's Diary, about the club spelling Roland's name wrong in the Valley Review this season until Jonathan Grade pointed it out on Twitter. I'm not the world's greatest speller, so I can never remember the correct spelling without looking it up, but it looks like what his name was "wrongly spelled as" is the same as all the other versions of it in this edition. Was this just the spellcheck being a bit too efficient in this case and correcting it from Dushatelet or whatever, or is there a joke here that's completely gone over my head?

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  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
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  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,756
    aliwibble said:

    Reading through the latest edition of VOTV, and have just got to the "Tragic Spell" item in @Airman Brown's Diary, about the club spelling Roland's name wrong in the Valley Review this season until Jonathan Grade pointed it out on Twitter. I'm not the world's greatest speller, so I can never remember the correct spelling without looking it up, but it looks like what his name was "wrongly spelled as" is the same as all the other versions of it in this edition. Was this just the spellcheck being a bit too efficient in this case and correcting it from Dushatelet or whatever, or is there a joke here that's completely gone over my head?

    Are you a bitter ex VOTV volunteer, @aliwibble ?
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,753
    edited November 2016
    Indeed, it looks like the incorrect spelling itself got corrected at some point, making the item complete nonsense!

    Club spelt it "Duchatalet".

    I'm off to sack the proofreader for ... er ... correcting the spelling.

    I'm not entirely surprised because the last few days of work on this issue were completely mad.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,474
    It's a good job you started the segment with "None of us is immune from such mistakes, as we well know..." :smiley: Thanks for the explanation, I'm just relieved this didn't end up with me getting a plethora of "whoosh" replies.

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