Have you tried the Microsoft spellchecker in Outlook Express, on the word "Obama"? Oops. Martin Saunders
The spellcheckers in Hotmail (see The Huffington Post) and Microsoft Office (Outlook Express does not have one) had not been programmed to recognise Obama, and therefore suggested the closest match in their dictionary: Osama. (Next closest is Bema.) Microsoft is fixing it ...
Web extra: This was reported as early as February 1 on ABC News, which noted:
We work the six-day weeks and Saturday-night primaries knowing we're always one mistype, one careless spell-check, one high-intensity breaking news story, one lightning-speed "publish to site," one angry editor away from turning "cap" into "crap," "throng" into "thong" and "Obama" into "Osama."
The simple solution, of course, is to add Obama to your custom dictionary....
