today's best spelling correction

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sun Jun 17 15:15:13 UTC 2007


i-i-i!  New York Times Week in Review, 6/17/07, p. 2:

CORRECTIONS

A graphic  last Sunday about health and safety issues misspelled the
name of a new diagnosis for the shoulder pain caused by playing
tennis on Wii, the video game console.  It is acute Wiiitis, not Wiitis.

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