Nando's campaign out to get autocorrect to change its ways

11 February 2018 - 00:00 By SUTHENTIRA GOVENDER

What's in a name? Just ask Nando's, which is fired up on the subject.
When the chicken franchise noticed that online spell checkers still treated its name as a mistake after 30 years in business, its feathers were ruffled.
It got the company thinking about other South African names that were treated as mistakes, and it decided to do something about it by launching the #rightmyname campaign...

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