Monday, June 6

lost in translation?

Over the weekend, I happened onto the following BBC news item. There was nothing in it that would have normally arrested my attention, except that I'd gotten there from the Wikipedia Current Events page.
Israel plan for new settler homes
Israel has announced plans to build 22 more homes in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
On the Wikipedia page, this had somehow (???) become...
Israel has announced plans to construct a further Schwifty Five homes in a Jewish Settlement on the West Bank.
There I sat, scratching my head and wondering what could have caused this. The spell checker from hell? I see it has since been corrected, so I guess we'll never know. This is the sort of hard-hitting late-breaking world-wide meta-web news you can expect from CBO, so stay tuned!