When we cheerfully predicted that new technology would cause the demise of the legal typo, we forgot about a new peril: the predictive text software that’s supposed to make life easier for people sending text messages or emails on the fly. Unless you’re careful, messages thus generated can range from the merely bizarre – ‘Inverness’ becomes ‘Governess’ – to the defamatory. An acquaintance of Obiter says his first name, Jason, is apt to be texted as ‘Lard’. And David Wershof of Wiseman Lee solicitors in London says that he recently received a message from an impatient client asking whether a certain date would be ‘pissible’. ‘It was sent on a BlackBerry so the "i" and the "o" are very close. But what a great way to end an afternoon,’ Wershof says. It seems the answer was in the affirmative.