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Why is Apple Maps saying “sawjootee” instead of “south”?

9 pointsby furrowedbrowover 3 years ago
As in, “turn left onto sawjootee-west 4th street” instead of “turn left onto southwest 4th street”. Anyone else experiencing this?

3 comments

yesenadamover 3 years ago
Quite a few google results reporting same thing, such as this discussion<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;civis&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=19&amp;t=1479443" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;civis&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=19&amp;t=1479443</a>
kazinatorover 3 years ago
Could it just be reading an underlying misspelling in the data, as in &quot;soujtwest&quot;? A combination of transposing TH as HT due to timing disruption between the left and right hand, while mistyping the H as the adjacent J.<p>There are plausible pronunciation attempts for &quot;soujt&quot; that a listener might phonetically transcribe as &quot;sawjootee&quot;.
arthurcolleover 3 years ago
They are way too busy deprecating OS features to focus on actually adding&#x2F;enhancing functionality. Maybe you are &#x27;listening to the app wrong&#x27; ?