I have an iMac at work which the College's IT department set up for me. In my Mail program I have my preferences set to no autocorrect but it autocorrects anyway. This drives me crazy because it always changes Japanese words into something else and I don't always notice, leading to some puzzling emails. Yesterday I typed the word kokeshi and just before I hit send I saw that it had changed it to 'chokes.' I exasperatedly went into my settings once again. I saw I had autocorrect turned off so I turned to Google and found out that in Yosemite, autocorrect is the default, and that if you go into your keyboard preferences you can change it. Victory! I followed the directions step by step. It old me to open preferences, go to keyboard, and then go to text. Then I could uncheck 'correct spelling automatically.' Yay! There's also a table there in which you can submit your own autocorrections. Just as in the illustration, mine had it set so that omw would autocorrect to 'on my way.' O.k. No problem. Then I had another one, not in the illustration, that said autocorrect 'herpes' to 'okay.'
I just stared at it, puzzled. I made my colleague open up her keyboard text preferences....all she had was 'omw' to 'on my way.''
What the hell?
I pondered where this would have come from. I even googled 'autocorrect herpes to okay' only to be led to pages of alternative treatments for herpes.
I have a laptop for work as well. I just checked it. It also says autocorrect herpes to okay.
Is my IT department messing with me? Why does my computer want to autocorrect herpes to okay?
I'm trying to think how this would work in a sentence.
Huh.
In other news from my life, Rascal fell in love with a bag, and Ernie's PSA was a nice low .02 at the Cancer Center yesterday.
So many mysteries in life....