# Are there words that your fingers want to spell wrong? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521 "2005-06-16T11:51:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/21 "2005-06-16T17:54:46Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > a lot of times, I just “space bar” wrong. E.g., instead of writing “in the” I’ll write “int he”. I do this all the time too. And I always type compouter for computer. Dunno where the extra “o” comes from, but it always puts itself in there somehow. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/22 "2005-06-16T17:58:28Z")
Every time I try to type fantasy, my fingers type fantasty. I think I’ve invented a potentially great word here. It should mean “fantastically tasty,” as in, “Wow, that was fantasty!” ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/23 "2005-06-16T18:23:15Z")
I often catch myself–probably not as often as I don’t–making the usual much derided errors involving _to_, _two_, \*too, and especially _their_, _they’re_ and _there_. OF course I know better, but it’s as if my brain is only sending the signal of the sound down to my fingers, and not telling them which spelling to use. This started happening as my typing speed increased. So I try not to be too critical of people who make that type of error. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/24 "2005-06-16T18:33:07Z")
“Their” - or is it “thier?” “Naeive” - if that’s even how you spell it. “Spell” - or “sepell,” apparently. “Invertibrate” - or “Invertebrate,” I’m really not sure. “Rhythm” - or “rythym” or “rhtyhtym” or whatever. “Teh” - this seems to be THE most commonly-typed misspelling on the web. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/25 "2005-06-16T18:46:51Z")
Through laziness, I will usually type with only one hand, my left. Thus when I type with both hands, the middle letters are usually transposed. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/26 "2005-06-16T18:53:52Z")
I can’t type license without first typing liscense. Even when I pause after li I still type s next. Drives me nuts. Also, aunt always comes out anut (snerk) and don’t comes out dont’. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/27 "2005-06-16T20:23:32Z")
Not as much a misspelling, but I think I should change my name to Sysab, because that’s what I type a lot of times. Luckily, I’ve never sent an email with that misspelling. (And don’t ask me how many mistakes I’ve made in typing out this post. Backspace is my friend). Susan ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/28 "2005-06-16T20:27:07Z")
My worst offenders are teh and becasue. I’ve been typing for about 20 years now, I type for a living, I type over 60 wpm; you’d think at some point I would stop making errors, but noooooo. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/29 "2005-06-16T20:28:20Z")
_ **to the** _ It always comes out\* \*\*tot he \*\* \* and spell check won’t catch it. ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/30 "2005-06-16T20:55:31Z")
Noep. My typring is prefect. ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/31 "2005-06-16T20:59:33Z")
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. I must type this out a dozen times a day and still manage to miss out a “go” somewhere. 🙂 My contribution though is whether or weather Weather the whether is going to be fine tomorrow or whether the weather is not. My fingers betray my brain because I do know how each one is spelt. It just seems to come out wrong nearly every time. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/32 "2005-06-16T21:13:14Z")
Too many to list, mostly switching letters and mis-placed spaces. Teh is pretty common, and jsut and dont’. But way too many to even attempt to remember them all. As a side note, I have a habit of ending certain words with the letter ‘e’ while writing–I’m not sure what is up withe that. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/33 "2005-06-16T21:22:43Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Through laziness, I will usually type with only one hand, my left. Thus when I type with both hands, the middle letters are usually transposed. “being lazy” huh? [So thats what kid’s are calling it these days](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320920) :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/34 "2005-06-16T21:27:35Z")
Everytime I program with VB, I want to type End Bus. Why? God only knows. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/35 "2005-06-16T22:49:45Z")
Becasue is another one of mine. I guess this must be a conditioned reflex thing - I absolutely _know_ how to spell these words, but my fingers just do something else, but it’s not a _random_ something else, it’s the same mistake every time. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/36 "2005-06-17T00:14:10Z")
I always want to put a ‘g’ on the end of my company’s name instead of the correct ‘t’ (it makes a word either way), and for some reason, maybe because they’re both middle fingers on the keyboard, words that include both ‘k’ and ‘d.’ ‘Locked’ will often come out ‘locdek.’ ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/37 "2005-06-17T03:32:31Z")
Anything that ends in -in, I’ll always want to add a g. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/38 "2005-06-17T03:56:19Z")
I caught myself typing out “chould” instead of “should.” I don’t know _why_ I do this, but I do. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/39 "2005-06-17T10:16:50Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Or “nimrod”? I wish! ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/40 "2005-06-17T11:27:16Z")
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