Sunday Times spellchecker replaces Mitt Romney with a more roomy candidate

27 January 2008 | Category: News/Media/Sport

Sunday Times cutting - Mitt Roomy - oops
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Leafing through this morning’s Sunday Times, I thought for a moment that US presidential candidate Mitt Romney had a new nickname of “Roomy”, which I hadn’t heard before. But it would appear to be that in a tempestuous late night battle at the newspaper, a plucky little Spellchecker had taken on the might of the subs desk and slipped in a classic while they weren’t looking. “Romney? Do you mean Roomy?” it sneakily asked. “Replace All”, they happily clicked. “What, 28 times?”, asked the Spellchecker, nervously…

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