ReclaimYourName.dic
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Shortlist / Digital Design / Inclusive / 2023
With over a billion users, Microsoft Word is the most popular word processor in the world, but its programming still identifies non-English names as mistakes. Seeing a jarring red line under your own name is yet another version of something Asians hear all too often – that they don’t belong. Elimin8 Hate created a custom dictionary of over 8,000 Asian names using a little-known function of MS Word, and made it freely available for Canadians to download, normalising Asian identity for more than a billion users in just a few clicks. The plugin has since been adopted by Microsoft in a global update.