Another Apple Dictation failure

I texted my paper-centric daughter: “By the way I just ordered a 2026 muleskinner.”

No, not that.

Molina. Ball skin. Bull skin. Molina.

I thought it might be better if I pronounced it just as two syllables, but no luck. Malkin. Malkin. Mole skin. Close.

I tried four again. Mosquito.

Anyhoo (as my son would say), 2026 Moleskine planners are now available. And though I vowed in 2024 that I’d never buy another year’s /mōl-uh-SKEEN-uh/, I have.

More fun Dictation failures
“Stop & Shop” : “The nut free version” : “I mode the front lawn” : “Wrath scholar” : Spelling Glenmorangie : “F--k music” : “A concluding truck for belated pubs” : Edifice and Courson Blatz : Eight ways to spell Derrida : Nine ways to spell boogie-woogie

[To its credit, Apple Dictation now gets most of these right. Glenmorangie is still Glenn Margie. Oedipus (edifice ) is now purpose, and rathskellar is now wrath scalar. Derrida briefly appeared as itself before resolving to da da.]