# The brain moves in a mysetrious way **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226 "2020-03-25T02:56:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/1 "2020-03-25T02:56:19Z")
I am a very fast but not particularly accurate typist. One of the reasons for my lack of accuracy is that there are some specific words which I have serious difficulty typing. These words usually come out with two adjoining letters switched. A good example would be “commerical.” Another is the name “Elziabeth.” Auto-correct usually doesn’t fix it for me, unfortunately. Another word which jumps around like this is the word “jounrey,” scuse me, “journey.” I had occasion to type the word several times today. Then I was taking some notes by hand and needed to write the word via ballpoint pen and notebook paper. Yup, it came out “jounrey.” And here I thought the confusion was limited to the keyboard and the particular configuration of the letters on the keys. Guess not! Anything like this ever happen to you? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/2 "2020-03-25T03:53:12Z")
I know I have a few of these when typing, but the only one that comes to mind – although it’s not a letter swap – is typing “probably” for “probable.” I worked a bit for some lawyers and I always had to double check and correct “probably cause” to “probable cause.” I’ve also noticed on the Dope when typing while thinking, some words will come out spelled as their homophones, and I don’t mean confusing “it’s/its/its’” but something like “the redwood tree” coming out as “the redwould tree” or something like that. It’s really odd sometimes to see what comes out from under my fingers as I’m thinking and typing. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/3 "2020-03-25T05:35:43Z")
“Udpate” for “update”. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/4 "2020-03-25T07:42:32Z")
Becasue I proofread my posts, I usually catch all the times I swap the U and S in certain words. And the N and G in the suffix -ign. So you jsut won’t catch me makign those errors in my posts. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/5 "2020-03-25T12:48:01Z")
I just popped in to say that I think **mysetrious** is a really cool word. “Myse” from the greek Myso, or ‘unclean’, and the suffix “trious”, meaning 'in the state of. Mysetrious: the state of being unclean. I must remember that term, I can use it as a descriptor at work! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/6 "2020-03-25T13:11:31Z")
I can’t type “monitor”, it comes out “montiro” half the time. “George” comes out “Geroge”. And “udpate”, as mentioned above. This is on a full size keyboard. I don’t have a problem writing them out by hand or one-finger typing on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/7 "2020-03-25T13:32:07Z")
I make teh mistake of typing ‘teh’ instead of ‘the’ so often that I’ve set up AutoHotKey to correct it automatically wherever I’m typing. Now I can keeping doing it without noticing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/8 "2020-03-25T14:00:56Z")
I get lost of wavy red liens, unless they’re actual sword. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/9 "2020-03-25T17:14:34Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > I make teh mistake of typing ‘teh’ instead of ‘the’ so often that I’ve set up AutoHotKey to correct it automatically wherever I’m typing. Now I can keeping doing it without noticing. 😃 That works until you have to write about Theran… I don’t do ‘teh’, but I do not infrequently mess up the same sequence of letters in ‘oteher’. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/10 "2020-03-25T17:30:10Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > That works until you have to write about Theran… > > I don’t do ‘teh’, but I do not infrequently mess up the same sequence of letters in ‘oteher’. Ah, but it has to be teh [space]… So if I want to write about Tehran, it won’t make any correction. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/11 "2020-03-25T17:46:09Z")
A former manager had the last name Trigg - I consistently would reference him as Trigger. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/12 "2020-03-25T19:17:51Z")
That’s a probelm whihc I have all the time. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/13 "2020-03-25T23:02:36Z")
Yep. I nearly always type reslut instead of result. Makes for an interesting thought though. ---
**Author:** ![goldmund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@goldmund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldmund)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/14 "2020-03-26T02:51:49Z")
I have a few like this, the first that come to mind are “repoistory” or sometimes “repoisitory” instead of “repository”, and “cofnig” for “config”. As a software engineer, I type both of those fairly often. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/15 "2020-03-27T10:43:40Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I get lost of wavy red liens, unless they’re actual sword. Half of what I write is in French, the other half in English. So my texting apps and word processors and browsers are always set to the “wrong” language for what I’m typing, and I get wavy red lines everywhere, to the point where they don’t mean anything anymore and I just ingore them. Microsoft Word is the worst because it allows multiple languages in the same document, managed automatically based on the keyboard layout you’re using when you type a word, and it doesn’t tell you which language is where. So the red wavy lines are doubly useless. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/16 "2020-03-27T18:11:45Z")
> [@Heracles](#): > > Half of what I write is in French, the other half in English. So my texting apps and word processors and browsers are always set to the “wrong” language for what I’m typing, and I get wavy red lines everywhere, to the point where they don’t mean anything anymore and I just ingore them. Turn the spellchecker off. That’s one of the first things I do when I get a new computer/operating system/brouser/whatever. Those wavy lines just annoy me. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/17 "2020-03-27T20:00:24Z")
I work in healthcare. The number of times I type “helath” is dwarfed only by the number of times I sign off an email with “thnask”. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/18 "2020-03-29T17:47:56Z")
I renewed by battle with my old nemesis “elgible” a bit ago. Flagged as a misspelling by my spell checker. It wants to sub “eligible” but that has an strange extra “i” and looks like a misspelling of “illegible” to me. ---
**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/19 "2020-03-31T02:11:04Z")
My long-time goof-up is ancinet for ancient, as if my fingers are tripping over the i before e rule because of the preceding c, but receiving causes no trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226/20 "2020-03-31T02:16:33Z")
I never get any ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ order correct on the first go. I never learned the rule because it doesn’t seem to have a rule. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brain-moves-in-a-mysetrious-way/850226.md?page=2)