Today I was searching for a telephone number via the Dutch yellow papers / phonebook online: detelefoongids.com.

I was looking for Sanne Steutel. Her whole life people have been misunderstanding her (uncommon) family name to be “sleutel”, which means “key” in Dutch.

Now it turns out the automatic spelling correction algorithm does not allow me to even search for Steutel: they automatically correct it to sleutel! I can’t search for Sanne’s phone number!! (Luckily I found out later I had her number in my own personal, paper, phone book, grin).

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