A few readers with sharper eyes than ours spotted a misspelling in Wednesday’s editorial that left us more than a little red-faced.
When we ran the editorial through our computer spell-checker, it flagged the name of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The setting we use for the spell-checker has it offer alternatives to words it thinks might be misspelled, and the user can click “change” or “ignore.” Rather than clicking the latter in this case, as we should have, we inadvertently clicked the former. The result was an embarrassing and unintentional rendition of Scalia’s name as “Antiunion Scalier.” The error wasn’t caught in our final, human proofreading process.
We deeply regret the error, and apologize to Justice Scalia.
Computers are wonderful tools, but this case reminds us that nothing replaces a human being’s attention to detail.
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