'Unpresidented act': Trump accuses China of stealing US navy drone in misspelled tweet

Daily Mail ^ | December 17, 2016 | Liam Quinn and Anneta Konstantinides

[Bigg Red]

Yep

[BenLurkin]

[ichabod1]

Daily Mail is on our side. And they report the news the American media deems not fit to print.

[ichabod1]

I believe you mean... ‘citing.’

[Don W]

One would think that the Daily Mail, complaining about a misspelled word that could have been caused by autocorrect or voice-to-text software, would ensure they had no similar errors in their article, to wit:

Meanwhile, China's Defense Ministry claimed that a Chinese navy lifeboat had discovered what first appeared to be a peace of 'unidentified equipment'.

I'm still snickering...

[dasboot]

Damn spell check.

[Gator113]

Truly laughing out loud.

[freedumb2003]

>>Good morning! The #WordOfTheDay is...not ‘unpresidented’. <<

I think it should be a real word, as in “The USA has been unpresidented since 1/21/2008 but will be presidented starting 1/20/2016.”

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I think Andrew Jackson was a terrible speller as well.

My History teacher (back when they used to teach such foolishness) told us a story on this topic.

It seems at one point Andy was a quartermaster for the Army, and his job was to inspect cases of rifles to make sure each case was complete, the rifles assembled, and in working order. When he got done with each case he would mark it..."Oll Korekt" (guess he had a bit of an accent)

You know how the military is with acronyms, so as time went on, he decided to abbreviate it, and simply marked them OK.

[Pinkbell]

I made a typo in a topic about a typo. Fail for me.

[JimRed]

'China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented (sic) act,' Trump wrote in a misspelled tweet.

A spoken tweet vs. a typed tweet. Autocorrect does it all the time on texts, to me at least, and I don't always read carefully enough to catch the changes.