Words you nearly always have to retype

My hands often type:
Question as Quaestion

and

Mouth as Mought

I don’t know why; it’s not my spelling, as this is usually pretty good; something just seems to go astray between brain and hands.

Anyone else?

Include I nearly always type as ‘inlcude’ which is a real pain when you’re a C programmer like I am… also return always ends up ‘retrun’… on the whole I spend more time correcting typos in my programs than I do writing them…:smiley:

I’m always doing that myslef.

Detriot, the industrial city in Michigan.

I have trouble with a two-word combination:

“to the” nearly always comes out as “tot he”.

Almost ALL of them. By biggies…

“through” instead of “thought”
“instaed” instead of…well…
The big one:

WOULND’T

I wouln dot eat it in a house. I wouln dot eat it with a mouse.

sigh

And “got it” is ALWAYS “go tit,” as if I were playing XXX Zork.

Network.

Damn near every time I type it, it comes out as “netwrok”.

Here - I’ll type fast and let’s see if I can do it again:

Please make sure that your netwrok cable…

See?

‘Exercise’. I always misspell that one about three times before I get it right. But in the life of a lazy individual like me, one does not have to type that word very often. :smiley:

Meusli, setnece, exxagerate

For is, in or it, you could easily get one of the other two.

Every single time I’m typing a cover letter* and I have type the word “zero” it always comes out “zoer”.

And the other day every single time I (tried to) type “Ship Direct” I had to go back and correct it because I keep typing “Shit Direct”.

98% of the time I type good morning as good moring. And The almost always comes out as teh. Drives me nuts! And I lost all my posts!

teh

I have been mistyping ‘position’ as postion…many many times as I’ve been job hunting lately!

teh
ypu
tot eh
therer
leik
posititon

ypu get teh idead…

Let’s see if they turn out right when I type them now:

Maintenance (yep - got it. Usually turns out “maintenacne”)
Governmetn (usually turns out even worse)
Environemtn (kinda like that one did)

“The” almost always comes out as “teh”. Also, I always misspell “surprise” (“suprise”) and “exercise” (“excersise”) in a way that makes spellcheckers unable to find the correct word, so I have to do some thinking on those.

Also, there are many Unix commands that I commonly mistype, but they are too numerous to list here. So many in fact, I’ve put them all in an alias file so they still work for me anyway. :slight_smile:

“Always”

Unless I’m extremely careful it will come out “alwasy.” I don’t know why – the ‘y’ and the ‘s’ aren’t even close to each other on the keyboard…

Jess

Ah, but tha “a” and the “s” are right next to each other (and on the home row, to boot). So your left fingers get the the “s” key before your right fingers can make the stretch all the way to the “y” key above and to the left.

:smiley:

“Your” always winds up as “You”
“I read you post, and I noticed…”

My city of Englewood. I’ve seen it typed “Engelwood” on envelope, letters, and even in taglines on TV.

When I try to type England, it also comes out “Engelwood” if I’m not thinking. But that’s just from typing “Engelwood” so much.