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Polygraphs are often wrongly referred to as "lie detectors".
This suggests that a significant number of individuals were wrongly referred.
An earlier version wrongly referred to French patrimonie nationale rather than patrimoine national.
An earlier version wrongly referred to the Leveller Robert Lockyer as John Lockyer.
This article was amended on 19 March 2013 as it wrongly referred to EPO as a growth hormone.
The original sub-heading wrongly referred to Da Vinci rather than Leonardo, in contravention of the Guardian Style guide.
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"I think we've had one of the most successful 13 weeks in the history of the presidency," Trump said on Air Force One, wrongly referring to the 11 weeks he has been in office.
Not only is The Ladykillers one of Britain's best-loved films, but the cast of the 1955 production – Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom and Danny Green – did include one or two actors that modern film programmes like to wrongly refer to as "legends", even if (pedantry aside) you know what they mean.
The not-for-profit organisation UK Skeptics is even less welcoming to climate sceptics, with a helpful note stating: We are nothing to do with opposition, activist, or denialist groups who wrongly refer to themselves as 'skeptics' because they adopt a position of non-belief (eg global warming skeptics, vaccine skeptics, etc).
As anyone who has been on the end of a righteous screed at at Black Country record fair will tell you, woe betide the layman who wrongly refers to a metal sub-genre – and the latest to find out the hard way are the writers of The Simpsons.
Alphabet, the company you probably still wrongly refer to as "Google," today announced the launch of Chronicle, a new cybersecurity company that aims to give companies a better chance at detecting and fighting off hackers.
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