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JSGeare asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 decade ago

Yahoo spell checker identifies "Obama" as misspelling - comments?

It has no problem with "McCain", but reports Obama as a misspelled word. Agreed, that Obama is a new word and probably missing from the dictionary. But surely Yahoo would have added it by now. I wonder why not. Your thoughts?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Because no dictionary has it. It is not a western nor common name. It doesn't recognize my last name either and mine is very common.

    If you are insinuating Yahoo! is racist you are on the wrong page, buddy.

  • Yahoo is weird. Once I was typing an answer and it said "Hmm... you seem to have a lot of punctuation". I copied and pasted that into the answer box and it says "Oops! It looks like you have 1 misspelling(s)."

    I go to see what it is and they say the "Hmm..." is misspelled. Now I can annoy Yahoo with that all day.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Probably because its a less common pronoun.

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