Shades of "Look Around You"

[rmd]

Apparently, changing "The queen" to "queen elizabeth" on global search/replace ends up with some unexpected results:
screencap and article.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when you switch your brain off and just use a spell checker, rather than doing actual proofreading and copyediting.

[cz_unit]

Ooops.

[cz_unit]

Actually, I'll bet this was an error from a Temis type enrichment engine. More and more companies are using them to lock writing into template styles, and I'll bet this is a British one that replaces "The Queen" with "Queen Elizabeth II" as a style lock.

Ooops.

C

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

From what I remember about English Monarchy, while the Queen Mother's title was "Queen Elizabeth" (still is?), so replacing "The Queen" with "Queen Elizabeth" was incorrect from several points of view.


"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II, the present British sovereign, and the widow of King George VI. "

http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/The%20House%20of%20Windsor%20from%201952/QueenElizabethTheQueenMother/Biography.aspx


"The Queen is Head of State of the UK and 15 other Commonwealth realms."

http://www.royal.gov.uk/HMTheQueen/HMTheQueen.aspx

[alanj]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/07/christian_sites_ban_on_g_word.html

[tb]

At least it wasn't an article about breeding cats.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

I suspect the human editor has software that flags all sorts of "questionable" usages, and he accidentally clicked "Replace All" rather than "No". There has been at least one famous incident of this in the Globe, "putting Washington back in the black" was turned into "putting Washington back in the African-American".