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You're listening to Away With Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

And I'm Grant Barrett. We're long past the point where there's any humor left in making fun of the spell check on programs like Microsoft Word, right?

Oh, I still titter over it.

But I think there's still some humor left in the cell phone auto corrections.

Oh, those, yeah.

There was a great story a number of weeks ago in the New York Times by my friend and colleague

Ben Zimmer, who now writes the on-language column for New York Times, and he wrote about

auto-incorrections.

These are the crazy things where, well, you mean to type one thing, but something else comes out of the phone,

and you look a little silly on the other end because you'd send the text message without realizing it, right?

Right.

Well, so we put the word out, you and I did, on Facebook and on Twitter, asking our listeners, you,

if you had something to tell us about some auto

incorrection that your phone made.

And we got a couple of great ones.

Liz told us that her friend Lorna's name is often changed to porno, which I thought it was

great.

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