Well attestedNamed from the place
Cupertino
noun · first attested 21st century
The autocorrect blunder is named for a Californian city.
An autocorrection that replaces a word with a wrong one.
37.3175°N -122.0419°W · Q189471
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 21st century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Cupertino
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Cupertino
Early spellcheckers lacking cooperation offered Cupertino instead, and the substitution became the name for the whole class of error.
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