Interesting facts about the British Broadcasting Corporation

When the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on the global celebration of the Lunar New Year on January 31, 2014 (the first day of the Lunar New Year), it mistakenly displayed the "Year of the Horse" as the "Year of the Prostitute", causing a big fuss. joke.

BBC News mistakenly displayed the English word "Year of Horse" as the homonym "Year of Whores" (Year of Whores) on the TV subtitles on Friday. A discerning member of the public captured the incident and uploaded it to social networking sites, where it quickly went viral. Some netizens joked: "According to the BBC subtitles, this year should be quite interesting."

The subtitles of the BBC's live programs are automatically generated by a computer speech recognition system or input by a stenographer on the fly. There have been many errors before. In a report on the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002, the Archbishop of Canterbury who attended the ceremony was shown as the "Arch Bitch of Canterbury"; in 2011, when the station reported on the pig industry, it said that pigs would Chew away anything in the pig pen, including rubber water boots (wellies), but the subtitle says "willies" (penis).