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I used to do technical writing and for some software that I wrote the manual and help system for, one of the menu items was misspelled. I spelled the word correctly in the text describing its functionality, but whenever I referred (so to speak) to it directly as the menu item to be selected, I kept the misspelling (this was the early 90s, the days of people saying non-ironically that they couldn't find the "any" key on their computer).



Pretty sure people still can't find the any key, we just stopped asking them to!


Yep, I get some prompts now that say "Press the $X key" (often space), but will actually proceed if you hit any key. It always give me a touch of chuckles when I think about why they named a specific key then.




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