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Well … besides all the usual stuff here, especially “teh” for the …
I am incapable of picking my finger up off the shift key in a timely manner when I type peoples’ names, including my own. It’s at its worst when I type emails, so ALlen and BArbara and all my other collegues, friends, etc. always know it’s me when they get an email from NAncy.
My absolute worst typo ever, though, was pre-computer, when I worked as a public relations assistant. I insisted on leaving the “l” out of the word “public”. All it took was one time sending out a press release to all the local newspapers and TV stations introducing myself as the Pubic Relations Assistant for the local Catholic girls’ high school, and you can bet I checked for that sucker very, VERY carefully thereafter …
I almost always type “hte” instead of “the”. Also, I tend to capitalize the first two letters of words (i.e. CApitalize). That last one is very annoying because that’s something spell checkers don’t catch.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I typed
Reponse.Write
and
Exit Bus
The funniest typo I ever saw was a Charlotte Observer ad for a computer with a “5-1/4 inch floppy dick”.
When I was learning BASIC, I would often type lust rather than list. Very embarrassing when someone was watching.
One word that I can never type properly is “except.” Something about the positions of the letters. I always have to stop and do it v-e-r-y slowly.
One time, while typing a document I had to type the word “type”. I made a typo. What did I type?
“typo”