Rogue h on BBC News headline this morning. It’s not in the story, which correctly uses ‘fungi’
@Gaolaitch I thought it might be an LLM that's eaten too many recipes.
The BBC amassed a fair collection of those, in the days when food made for cheap entertainment, so it's possible their little army of silicon interns had them added to their rations, if only by mistake.
But the same error appears in BBC news items as far back as 2002, so it'll be in their spellchecking corpus anyhow - the subtle legacy, perhaps, of journalists' expense accounts being more used in restaurants than libraries.