# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/21 "2002-03-12T21:11:21Z")
City nearby named Palos Verdes comes out Palso every time. Maybe the theory about the nearer-ness of s vs. o? Actually same finger but one row away. Or brain damage. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/22 "2002-03-13T00:02:03Z")
Email is usually emial, which is a pain since it is a word I type quite a bit. I can also be counted among the ranks of those who type teh for the. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/23 "2002-03-13T00:12:45Z")
jsut for just awlays for always throught for through, but I rarely mess up thought ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/24 "2002-03-13T03:15:01Z")
Not exactly a typing mistake, more of a mental glitch: I type (or write) ‘for’ when I mean to say ‘of’, and vice-versa. I think there’s a technical term for cross-overs like that. Whatever it is, it drives me nuts. I’m also prone to type ‘to’ when I mean ‘too’. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/25 "2002-03-13T03:36:30Z")
Where’s **typo mna** when we need him? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/26 "2002-03-13T03:51:28Z")
**Embarrass.** Or is it **embarass**? I usually have to stop and consult a dictionary for that word. I never get it right the first time. ---
**Author:** ![kissMeI\_merin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@kissMeI\_merin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kissMeI_merin)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/27 "2002-03-13T05:43:21Z")
i usually have to retype words that i know how to spell, but since my brain is used to letting my fingers type a certain combination of letters, they come out wrong. like i can’t for the life of me type “eric” or anything close to my name, because my brain insists that i should be talking about myself. speaking of myself, i always for some reason type it “myslef”. my friend and i have a joke about “myslef” the german elf. but i think you would think that was funnier if you were that friend and we were im-ing. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/28 "2002-03-13T06:41:45Z")
One of my worst ones is “fresh.” Somehow I can always count on it coming out as “freash” as I fat-finger an a in there. Another one I hate is how I will often type “out” instead of “put” and vice versa because of the proximity of the o and p to each other on the keyboard. What sucks even worse about this one is that the spell checker won’t catch these, and they don’t exactly stand out as errors when doing a casual proofread, either. “Doing” always ends up being “going” and vice versa. Semi-colons where I want apostrophes are also particularly pesky errors I can’t get away from. “You” often comes out as “yiu”. There are probably a million others that I am not thinking of at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![AbsolutelyStark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@AbsolutelyStark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbsolutelyStark)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/29 "2002-03-13T07:29:14Z")
“Because” and “house” always end up being “becasue” and “hosue.” And I sometimes put “sork” instead of “work.” ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/30 "2002-03-13T13:04:23Z")
I’m the same as Widdershins, and always do ‘jsut’ for ‘just’. It’s a damn pain in the proverbial, but at least I’m aware of it now, and so any time I use the word I ALWAYS check. And sometimes “the” comes out as hte…but I’m getting better at all of my keyboard dyslexia, UNTIE, stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839/31 "2002-03-13T13:40:47Z")
I do **teh** and \*\* just\*\* as well, and if the same letter ends a word and starts the next one I will tend to only use one of them…so **rather racy** ends up being typed as **rather acy** , but I am horribly inefficient, instead of inserting the missing letter I backspace and erase the whole damn offending word and start again.,which I type as **agian**. Keith [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-nearly-always-have-to-retype/97839.md?page=1)