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What do you want to misspell today?

At the Volokh Conspiracy are several posts on errors that have become entrenched in our documented history most likely by virtue of the Word autocorrect feature. Which isn't nearly as handy as it purports to be when it doesn't get things right.

An additional example I've noticed is that Word will change "tortious," a handy word for lawyers to use when suing for a tort, to "tortuous," which may also be applicable to the matter at hand but certainly doesn't express quite the same thought.

Lawyers should probably turn off that particular recommendation. Unfortunately not all of them have...

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