[Ads-l] In a post to the NYT Online: "banned" > "banded"

[Tim Stewart]

> _banded_ for _banned_


Is this possibly an artifact of someone using the speech-to-text feature
(i.e., speech recognition) on their smartphone to make the posting you saw?
Or possibly a consequence of a faulty AutoCorrect feature on the poster's
smartphone? (Your original e-mail doesn't say whether this wrong word is
part of the *NYT* article or is part of a comment made by a reader, and I
tried googling and couldn't find it.)

Tim

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "... the use of metal containers was _banded_ for various reasons and the
> shift was made to plastic garbage bags ..."
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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