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Bryan Lewis suggested on Facebook that pericope is\u00a0a word that Biblical studies scholars ought to phase out, perhaps replacing it with something more commonly used in English, such as \u201cpassage.\u201d<\/p>\n

I suggested that a good reason for phasing out pericope is that it is not in most electronic devices\u2019 dictionaries, and so has a tendency to autocorrect to\u00a0periscope<\/em>. Indeed, I recently read a draft of a manuscript which had \u201cperiscope\u201d where \u201cpericope\u201d was meant.<\/p>\n

And so Bryan shared two images of the offered autocorrections on his own computer:<\/p>\n

\"intertextuality\u00a0\u00a0\"pericope<\/p>\n

Hence the title of this post. I could well imagine a New Testament article in which unproofread autocorrect led to reference being made to \u201cintersexuality in this Pauline periscope\u201d or something of that sort.<\/p>\n

What words that ought to be in your device\u2019s dictionary are not, leading to frustrating autocorrects? And what terms have become so obscure that they ought to be phased out, and not just for the technologically-related reasons mentioned above?<\/p>\n

Obviously setting autocorrect wisely, and proofreading, are also viable solutions to this problem\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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