I have mistyped “disturbed” as “distrubed” and “confused” as “confussed” so many times that the incorrect versions have started looking correct to me. I’ve even started pronouncing them that way on occasion.
I must say that I find this turn of events particularly distrubing, and I’m sure it confusses the heck out of my friends, but what can I do? Am I alone in my affliction?
A long long time ago on an SDMB Message Board far far away (AOL), a poster named Roshnee infamously typed that she was “insluted”, and “insluted” was referenced nearly as often as “Hi Opal”. I notice that Roshnee does not post any more. Unsure of the causal connection.
Slightly off-topic, but I remember a friend trying to type up a NaNoWriMo novel, and trying to avoid making it slash, as that was all she wrote as a general thing.
Anyway, the phrase “Sleeping in the nude” became “Sleeping in the dude” - promptly declared the most Freudian typo of all time.
I often type the word “fresh” wrong. Somehow an a sneaks in there it comes out “freash.”
I often type “out” when I mean “put” and vice versa. The spell checker does no good to catch this one. I have the same problem with “going” and “doing.”
A few weeks ago someone in my company sent out an email about a virus that was just another dumb hoax. So she sent out another one that said, “boy I fell stupid!” It’s become a bit of a catchphrase for me.
I say opps a lot too. My boss constantly types “opps” instead of “oops” when he makes other typos in MSN. I think it’s just that he doesn’t know how to spell it. I invariably type “opps I said opps!” back and he NEVER knows what I’m talking about.
Tyops? Gotta to love 'em. Once worked for a print advertising company (making the flyers for Albertsons, Kmart and the Now Defunct Monkey Wards and such) and some of them made history. My personal favorites were “Stretch Cocks - One size fits all” (Socks) which went out on proof to the customer and a good laugh was had by all. Then there was “Chicken Farts 69 cents a pound” (Parts). My own personal tyop that I liked the best was a menu containing “Crap Salad” which is interesting because the B is nowhere near the P. Must have been a Freudian Tyop since I am not a seafood fan. Also, many typesetters have a hard time getting the “L” in Public, which I heard cost a proffreeder his job at some major newspaper, but this may be an urban legend among typesetters of old. It is difficult to get a quarter in the “Pubic Phone.”