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Cupertino
37.3175°N -122.0419°W · Q189471
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Cupertino. It sits in United States.
Cupertinonoun · 21st century
Well attestedThe autocorrect blunder is named for a Californian city.
Early spellcheckers lacking cooperation offered Cupertino instead, and the substitution became the name for the whole class of error.
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Cupertino effectnoun · 2000s
Well attestedOfficial EU and NATO documents were published referring to Cupertino between nations.
Older spellcheckers held cooperation only in its hyphenated form, so the unhyphenated spelling was corrected to Cupertino, the northern California city where Apple has its headquarters. Translators found the result in United Nations, NATO and European Union texts. The linguist Ben Zimmer named and popularized the phenomenon in 2007.
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