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Menu typos

Washington Post writer admits to having a fantasy of correcting typos in restaurant menus with “a distinctive purple pen”. But sometimes the computer’s spellchecker is no help.

Despite my attempts to stop it, my Microsoft Word program would always change the word for Italy’s famous cured meat into what it assumed I meant to type. The night we closed an issue, I would have nightmares that when the magazine hit the stands, one of my reviews would describe “the delicate sweet and salty balance of melon and prostitute.”