# Are there words that you type wrong, every time?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 18, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842 "2008-03-18T21:59:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/61 "2008-03-20T18:32:15Z")

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Teh. For the life of me, I can’t seem to hit the damn h before the e. I also sometimes put the space one letter too late. Fore example: Whent he or more likely Whent eh instead of when the.  
I need new fingers.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/62 "2008-03-20T18:37:43Z")

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teh  
cmo (as in something.cmo)  
a lot of DOS commands\*  
Back when I used DOS, I took each of my common misspellings and created a batch file of the same name. Inside the batch file would be the correctly spelled command. Worked like a charm.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/63 "2008-03-20T18:52:04Z")

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I can’t say I have a speciality. But I may never take that vacation trip to Finald.

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/64 "2008-03-20T20:21:01Z")

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Website. Invariably I type it as “webiste.”

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