A misspelling bruhaha

Sept. 25, 2009
Click on the motorcycle image in this Machine Design funny bike story. The pop-up caption says, "The centrifical clutch on a Kawasaki funny bike was created using a Handyscan 3D digitizer and Rapidform XOR software." Many of our readers wrote in to ...

Click on the motorcycle image in this Machine Design funny bike story. The pop-up caption says, "The centrifical clutch on a Kawasaki funny bike was created using a Handyscan 3D digitizer and Rapidform XOR software."

Many of our readers wrote in to point out the misspelling of the word "centrifugal." Kudos to our readers! You must wear microscope glasses, or better yet, electron-microscope glasses!

— Leslie Gordon, misspeller extraordinaire

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