Cupertino effect

Etymology
Named for the fact that some older computer spellcheckers did not have knowledge of the word, and when a user typed it in the document, the spellchecker automatically replaced it not with , but with , a name of a city in northern California and headquarters of Apple, Inc.

Noun

 * 1)  The replacement, by a spell checker, of words that it interprets as being misspelled, by words which are still incorrect in context.