In my job, I frequently type the word “insurance” as “insurnance”, almost every time.
I’ve very pround of myself when I type “proud” correctly.
Clevelnad
Remeber
Neice
“Design” as “Deisgn.” Kinda sucks when you’re a designer.
I tyep everythign prefectly.
Ok, ok. I often type “lsit” instead of “list”.
Geek anecdote with bonus software hack: I’ve used the old DOS command-line LIST program for years to view text files. I’ve typed LSIT so many times that I finally made a batch file called LSIT.BAT that actually runs LIST.COM and then when LIST is exited displays “By the way, you typed lsit, not list”
“Weird” always looks weird. I reverse the vowels, and then it looks weirder, so I put them back again.
I also always end up with “enveloper,” whenever I attempt to type “envelope.” This is because I have to type “developer” twenty times a day at work, and so after typing “V-E-L-O-P-E,” the “R” follows out of habit. Stupid Pavlovian fingers.
Oooh, can I play too? Being dyslexic, there are a ton of words that I always type incorrectly. Any word that begins with an “s” will be typed with a “c” and vice versa. Every single time. It’s one of my dyslexic quirks, and I know about it, so I always double- and triple-check those words. Funny enough, that’s the only thing that I always mess up while typing. I mean, I make typos like anyone else, but nothing that falls under “regular” mistakes.
I type “lsit” as well, with the added bonus that I always think of the back-masked message in Empty Spaces off the Wall by Pink Floyd, right before the bee-like solo before it says “what shall we use to fill the empty spaces…”, even though it’s more of a “NSIT” than a “LSIT”.
I always want to type “soulution” instead of solution, but I never do. Ditto for “entingeering” for engineering, and that typo is surprisingly in the wild on Google.
Helath for health is my most common typo.
I came in to post this one. You’ve misspelled more incorrectly, though:
cayenne_~:385% grep more .cshrc
alias mroe more
I find that sometimes I mistype entire Unix commands, which kind of freaks me out. I will, for instance, intend to type “ifconfig”, and look at the terminal window to find that I’ve typed “netstat”. It’s not that I confuse the commands, either, it’s that my fingers have surprised me by typing an entirely different word than the one I intended. It only happens with closely related commands that I use frequently.
For some reason I always seem to hit the “i” en passant when typing the “ou” combination – yoiu shoiuld see what it looks like if I don’t proofread!
Also teh for the – except for when I’m doing in on purpose!
This is one thing I do regularly. It is part of my dyslexia – I do it in all of my written communications – even handwritten. I must proofread everything that I write, it’s become second nature to proofread IM’s before I send them. I can’t impress upon you how much I appreciate the computer and not having to use pen/pencil and paper! Imagine writing a letter that is supposed to say “How are you? Things are well here.” but instead says “When is the rain going to end, I made monkeys float.” It’s that bad sometimes.
I am a technoidiot, but you need to go to youtube and search for “The Impotence of Proofreading” by Taylor Mali. Maybe it’s just becasue I’m an English teacher, but it cracks me up every tiem.
I’ve been so condfused - but it does seem an appropriate word to mistype.
ifcongif is mistake I make constantly.
I’m always typing ls at Dos prompts. At one point I broke down and put a ls.bat in my path. That proved to be a bad idea when I started getting in the habit of typing things like “ls /w”.
I have got myself so trained to type the name of my city as “Englewood” instead of “Engelwood” that I have a hard time typing any word that begins with “Eng.”
I’ve seen “Engelwood” on everything from envelopes to TV news reports.
There are collections like CYGWIN, that have many ports of Unix commands like ls, cat, tail, etc. Dump them in a c:\utils directory add it to the path, and you’re set.
About half the time I type “to the” as “tot he,” which a spellchecker is fine with.
I can’t seem to type “angiotensin” without adding Ns, but it doesn’t come up that much. (I’m a medical editor, though, so it comes up sometimes.)
Most of the time I will screw up the “-ly” words. I’m also a fairly fast but mistake-prone 2-fingered typist – if someone had explained to be in high school that I’d be typing my days away, I would have learned to touch-type.
I do “tot he” a lot, too. Also, every time I try to type the word “fantasy,” it comes out “fantasty.”
With me it’s “ie” words, for example. Belief, believer, atheist, transceiver, etc. “I before e except after c” is a rule my subconscious seems to hate. The exceptions don’t help. Almost every post, I have to correct some.