I recently ran my spellchecker over a course I was preparing about the Ballets Russes (or the Ballets Wusses, as the spellchecker would have preferred). For the hilarious results, please see my blog post.
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For a giggle: Spellchecker vs. Fokine
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kbarber
, Sep 25 2012 09:37 AM
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Posted 25 September 2012 - 10:54 AM
"for Bronislava Nijinska: bronchitis hijinks" 
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Posted 25 September 2012 - 02:16 PM
a friend noted at one point that Rudolf Nureyev was Rudolf Nervy
and Margot Fonteyn was Magot Fountain.
and Margot Fonteyn was Magot Fountain.
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Posted 25 September 2012 - 04:07 PM
CHOICE!!
Ballets Wusses is REALLY good.
Ballets Wusses is REALLY good.
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 05:37 AM
wonderful! I love it! Oh, for a good laugh! 
Thank you!
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 05:41 AM
You're welcome. Yeah, they cracked me up too. I feel sorry for anyone who works in communications for the "Camembert Dance Company"!
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 11:24 PM
Katherine, this is such a delightful post; and god know, spell-check has done horrible things to me. But I DID have a live editor once change "pointe shoes" to "pointed shoes," I am not making this up, and asymetrical became symmetrical somehow once it was out of my hands.... Worse than that, but I won't go into it.
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 02:00 AM
Paul Parish, on 26 September 2012 - 11:24 PM, said:
Katherine, this is such a delightful post; and god know, spell-check has done horrible things to me. But I DID have a live editor once change "pointe shoes" to "pointed shoes," I am not making this up, and asymetrical became symmetrical somehow once it was out of my hands.... Worse than that, but I won't go into it.
Asymmetrical...symmetrical... aren't they the same thing?
Surely what you meant was "a symmetrical"! I saw "Pointy shoes" in the Toronto Star once, but I don't know whether the original writer, the copy editor, or the spellchecker was to blame.
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 01:21 PM
Paul Parish, on 26 September 2012 - 11:24 PM, said:
But I DID have a live editor once change "pointe shoes" to "pointed shoes,"
I interviewed a teacher whose audition notice in a small paper asking dancers to bring their pointe shoes was "corrected" by a well-meaning copy editor, but my favorite example is from a Portland, Oregon paper which changed a mention of German expressionist soloist Mary Wigman into Mary Wigwam.
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Posted 28 September 2012 - 05:17 AM
Mary Wigwam!! 
Oh, my!!!
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