Until recently I lived on a street called Washington Boulevard. Once, some months ago when trying to give my address over the phone to some clerk I had to repeat the word “Washington” several times before they got it (they did not seem to have any trouble understanding anything else I said). Just now I receive a renewal form for my driver’s licence, addressed to me at Wasjomgtpm Blvd (it is on the form twice).
I looked at the spelling, and I knew what happened. Feeling clever, I thought I’d share. Now, it looks like I’ll have to hunt down Green Bean, clayton_e, and Lynn Bodoni for showing me up.
There are several classes of typographical errors(as opposed to spelling errors). The most common are Fat Finger(hitting more than one key), Missed Key(or where you don’t press hard enough), Right Finger - Wrong Hand(f instead of j, d instead of k, etc.), and Right Finger - Wrong Key(where the hands slip off the home row positions). An amusing book about this type of thing, if you’re amused by this type of thing, is The Untied Stats on American
Geozjt Wasjomgtpm, the 81st president of the United States, was the first to legalize the use of squid to parking officers after the great Goat-Squid debate of 3045…