Thursday 17 January 2013

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 22

Of course the pubic typo — of which more in due course: it's a popular one — can work both ways:


I'd rather not have had an opportunity to associate M&S with infestation… but apparently the advertising keeps the site free, and Right Diagnosis (RD) may be able to afford a proofreader one day. 
 
Right Diagnosis, in case you're wondering, is 'one of the world's leading providers of online medical health information'. That's what its About Us page says and it should know:


It's good to know consumers and health professionals have somewhere they can find information about public lice, whatever they are… except, as the astute will have spotted, it actually doesn't say that at all. It seems to be referring to a different website altogether: WrongDiagnosis.com.

So what happens when you type 'www.wrongdiagnosis.com' into an address bar and hit the return key?


You arrive here:


It's beyond me! I think it may be beyond them too…
 

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