Reminds me of the Alan MacMasters hoax, famous inventor of the toaster: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_MacMasters_hoax
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andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
At one point, a huge chunk of Scots Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who did not know Scots.
p3n@lemmy.world 1 month ago
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
When I learned about this it was the funniest thing I had heard. Like rolled around and nearly wet myself funny.
Nobody else has shared the humour with me and I have told lots of people.
Sorry for linking to that site, but this is where I learned about it, and Reddit is pivotal to the discovery
reddit.com/…/in_rscotland_one_user_discovers_that…