The word 'a s s u m e' being changed to ashume?

[randomName]

I've seen this as far back as June 20 2020. And this time 'a s s i g n e d' was changed to assigned.

What's going on here?

 

[ColinTaylor]

I've seen that a few times recently and just assumed there was an outbreak of bad spelling.

It appears that any word that starts with a s s is being changed to a s h.

butt
assxxxxx
xxxxxass
xxxassyyy

 

[RMerlin]

Isn't spell correct handled by the browser, not the forum platform?

Sounds to me like someone is running the Sean Connery spellchecker.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Isn't spell correct handled by the browser, not the forum platform?

butt

Just tried with Edge instead of Chrome and it's the same.

 

[XIII]

Does it change before or after clicking on "Post reply"?

 

[ColinTaylor]

Does it change before or after clicking on "Post reply"?

After you've posted it. It's some sort of display-only thing. If you go back and edit the post you can see that the underlying text is correct and hasn't been changed.

 

[XIII]

After you've posted it.

In fact, it already happens when you click on "Preview" (instead of "Post reply") I just noticed...

@thiggins Can you please clarify this mystery?

 

[thiggins]

It's a new feature that had overly inclusive settings. Fixed now.

 

[Smokey613]

I assume you found the issue!

 

[randomName]

Does it change before or after clicking on "Post reply"?

After. And I crosschecked with other forums like Overclock.net, Anandtech, etc. and they don't change assume to ashume, Sean Connery XD