# Words you inadvertantly add letters to when typing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/41 "2009-10-11T14:34:14Z")

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Behaviour, and similar words.

Lately, for no known reason, “beacuse” has been coming out “because”. And I really just typed it like that. WTF?

ETA: Added the quotes, to clarify what I was saying. Also, sometimes it comes out “beacause” instead.

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/42 "2009-10-11T14:38:08Z")

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Typing patterns become hard to break;

Happending  
Custoemr (only type that about 200 times a day on my job)

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-inadvertantly-add-letters-to-when-typing/512671/43 "2009-10-11T23:28:56Z")

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> [@jjimm](#):
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> Spreadsheete?

> [@Lobsang](#):
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> Not my place to tell you. But I there is a ‘businessy’ word in it.

Yeah, it’s like my name is “Iteme” and I’m always programming sites for businesses that have “item” as variable names, and I keep typing “iteme[backspace]” whenever I mean to just type “item”.

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