Add this new coinage to your list... spellcheck malfunction!

I wonder how many Americans are aware that the Chinese people refer to "America" as "Beautiful Country" (Meiguo). But I doubt that the Chinese are very much enamoured of the CIA.

Then along came US White House hopeful Mitt Romney who kicked off his campaign -- now that he is the anointed Republican challenger to Obama -- with , among other things, an iPhone app that says....

Let's just say there was a spellcheck malfunction, as some wags are already dubbing Romney's "Amercia" blooper. Watch this video "Mitt Romney's iPhone App Misspells 'America' as 'Amercia' ":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjye6Rnp84ca

Another online site, The Week, not only wrote about the Romney gaffe but also listed out seven other "political typos" by other US politicians, including my favourite, Sarah Palin:

http://theweek.com/article/index/228624/mitt-romneys-amercia-and-7-other-embarrassing-political-typos

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Still on names, I guess it makes sense for an American company that deals in Chinese gold mint coins to call itself...

  
I only hope that's not going to be the joint future name of the political union of "Beautiful Country" and "the Middle Kingdom", if ever that comes to pass!

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Finally, I came across this site called Weird World News. It claims to have scoured for weird news stories from around the world. It includes an item I had previously blogged about -- the village of F**king in Austria. And its most recent item is about...

http://weirdworldnews.org/tag/village/

Dog Sh*t Village Gets New Name
A town known officially as Dog Sh*t Village in western China because life there is so hard have been rewarded by local governors who have renamed the place.

The village, Goushi Zhai, in remote Guizhou province, has spent a year building new roads, improving homes and supporting local businesses and says it no longer deserves its name.

“It started as a nickname because life here was very tough but gradually it became what everyone called us, even the government and the police on their maps,” explained one village elder.

Now government officials have approved a permanent name change to Jinxin Village, which means "to put your heart and soul into something" in Mandarin.