# Words you inadvertantly add letters to when typing **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671 "2009-10-05T15:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/21 "2009-10-06T13:36:52Z")
[This post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11633289&postcount=5) reminded me: fantasty. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/22 "2009-10-06T14:06:56Z")
Ratio always comes out as ration. Guess what word got used hundreds of times in my thesis? I wonder how many times it was misspelled? ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/23 "2009-10-06T14:40:19Z")
I always add an extra ‘d’ to “adgenda”. An extra ‘s’ always sneaks into “ressurrection.” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/24 "2009-10-06T14:53:40Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > I always misspell separation. I used to misspell “separate” alot, but somehow managed to shove a “two Es, two As” meme into my brain when I get to it these days. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/25 "2009-10-06T14:59:22Z")
“Ratio” always becomes “ration.” ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/26 "2009-10-06T15:05:16Z")
For “any,” I’ll type “andy” embarrassingly often. I don’t even know any andys. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/27 "2009-10-06T15:36:16Z")
> [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](#): > > “Ratio” always becomes “ration.” That is exactly the one I came in to post: always and without fail, that “n” creeps in. And, after typing the previous sentence, here’s another: “exactly” always wants to become exactkly or exactlky, although I think that’s more a case of fat fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/28 "2009-10-06T15:51:27Z")
I randomly add the first letter of a word to the end of the previous word. For instance: “andt hen” instead of “and then”. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/29 "2009-10-06T16:00:37Z")
Eveidence. I have caught myself adding the extra e when handwriting it out, too, so it must be a thing with me. ---
**Author:** ![silvermist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@silvermist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silvermist)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/30 "2009-10-06T16:06:48Z")
yoiur, coiurse always the ou combo gets an i between them. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/31 "2009-10-06T16:10:03Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Spreadsheete? Not my place to tell you. But I there is a ‘businessy’ word in it. ---
**Author:** ![silvermist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@silvermist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silvermist)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/32 "2009-10-06T16:12:39Z")
MicroSoft Word has a feature under Tools, Autocorrect where you can type in the words you often mistype and then have it replaced with the correct spelling. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/33 "2009-10-06T16:16:52Z")
“Abotu” Every single time, it’s “abotu”. For some reason I can’t write “about” correctly on the first try. Also, I just wrote “frist”. Argh. Stupid fingers. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/34 "2009-10-06T16:40:50Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Ratio always comes out as ration. I do that one sometimes. It makes a kind of sense because there are a lot more English words ending in _-tion_ than in _-tio_. The one that makes no sense to me is why I mistype _supreme_ as _supremem_. Reminds me of the story of the little girl who knew how to spell banana but didn’t know how to stop. ---
**Author:** ![Flipshod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f19dbf/32.png) [@Flipshod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipshod)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/35 "2009-10-11T02:37:52Z")
“Occaissionally” I just can’t figure that word out. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/36 "2009-10-11T03:15:19Z")
I always spell “count” as “couont.” I have no idea why. ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/37 "2009-10-11T12:17:04Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > I do that one sometimes. It makes a kind of sense because there are a lot more English words ending in _-tion_ than in _-tio_. The one that makes no sense to me is why I mistype _supreme_ as _supremem_. Reminds me of the story of the little girl who knew how to spell banana but didn’t know how to stop. It was Nanny Ogg who knew how to start but didn’t know how to stop. I love that book! I often add an e to the end of with. As someone said, though, I do it in writing too, so it must be my brain, not my fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/38 "2009-10-11T12:33:52Z")
Reading notes written from my inlaws, primarily my MIL. The first time I read anything of hers I was completely lost. Now I am fluent in her Deutschlish. “Went” is usually spelled “Whent.” and “Got” Becomes ‘Ghot’. There are a few others, but those two always ghet me. Oh yeah, Ghet = get. Phonetics. I ghots it. ---
**Author:** ![Spectralist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Spectralist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectralist)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/39 "2009-10-11T12:38:02Z")
Hellow. I also always think aswell is one word. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/40 "2009-10-11T14:04:03Z")
Words ending in ‘a’ often get a ‘y’ added when I’m typing them. Apparently, I can’t tell the difference between the state of Florida and a day of the week!:smack: I also typo my own name embarrassingly frequently: nroinew instead of norinew, as an example. I guess I should be grateful my name doesn’t end in an ‘a’. :smack::smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671.md?page=3)