Having been struck by too many embarrassing Cupertinos in the past, I have made it my practice to disable all spell-checking wherever I can. This was reported in 2006, if not before, and examples date back to the last century. It’s claimed to have been coined by European Union translators, who noticed the spell-checker they were using did this to the unhyphenated form of cooperation, which was invariably changed to Cupertino. You won’t find it in your printed dictionaries, but the word Cupertino describes a problem which we all suffer: the automatic substitution of a correct word in a document by an incorrect (and usually wholly inappropriate) word.
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