# Words you nearly always have to retype **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 12, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839 "2002-03-12T14:15:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/1 "2002-03-12T14:15:58Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![ShadowWarrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@ShadowWarrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowWarrior)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/2 "2002-03-12T14:19:12Z")
**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…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/3 "2002-03-12T14:22:44Z")
I’m always doing that myslef. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/4 "2002-03-12T14:24:29Z")
Detriot, the industrial city in Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/5 "2002-03-12T15:13:24Z")
I have trouble with a two-word combination: “to the” nearly always comes out as “tot he”. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/6 "2002-03-12T15:26:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/7 "2002-03-12T15:41:05Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/8 "2002-03-12T15:56:39Z")
‘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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/9 "2002-03-12T16:00:26Z")
**Meusli** , **setnece** , **exxagerate** For **is** , **in** or **it** , you could easily get one of the other two. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/10 "2002-03-12T16:13:14Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![Calliope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Calliope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calliope)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/11 "2002-03-12T16:34:14Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/12 "2002-03-12T16:58:53Z")
teh ---
**Author:** ![ladydisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@ladydisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladydisco)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/13 "2002-03-12T17:06:41Z")
I have been mistyping ‘position’ as postion…many many times as I’ve been job hunting lately! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/14 "2002-03-12T17:24:12Z")
teh ypu tot eh therer leik posititon ypu get teh idead… ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/15 "2002-03-12T17:35:35Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/16 "2002-03-12T17:54:25Z")
“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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/17 "2002-03-12T18:03:17Z")
“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 ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/18 "2002-03-12T18:23:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jess \* > \*\*“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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/19 "2002-03-12T18:27:18Z")
“Your” always winds up as “You” “I read you post, and I noticed…” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/20 "2002-03-12T18:51:51Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839.md?page=2)