# Your Own Favorite Typos? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681 "2006-11-16T14:56:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![annanate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@annanate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annanate)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/21 "2006-11-16T21:38:15Z")
I can’t seem to type my own name. It should be ‘Becki’ but ends up being ‘Beclo’ about 95% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/22 "2006-11-16T21:39:12Z")
In my senior year of high school I wrote a fairly long paper (six or seven pages, I believe) about the use of metaphor in _Heart of Darkness_ (which, at the time of paper-writing, I had not in fact read, but my refusal to actually read the books we read in class and uncanny ability to still maintain a decent grade is a story for another time). Anyway, for some bizarre reason my fingers decided that the paper should in fact be about “meataphors”, which I can only suppose are metaphors concerning a carnivore’s foodstuff, and possibly butchers. To this day, it is something of a joke between my proofreading buddy and I. “I’m just not quite sure where you’re going with this meataphor in the fourth paragraph…” ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/23 "2006-11-16T21:43:12Z")
My personal favorite is “theorectical” for “theoretical.” ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/24 "2006-11-16T22:12:57Z")
I type “prople” instead of “people” all the time. Also, “form” instead of “from” which is weird because when I type “information” it most often comes out “infromation” Speaking of words that end in “-ion” I usually type “-oin” instead. Oh, and “work” for “word” ---
**Author:** ![bundykala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bundykala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bundykala)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/25 "2006-11-16T23:18:35Z")
A friend once wrote “trustwrothy” instead of trustworthy. That just stuck. I mean, it took me three tries just now to actually spell the word the correct way. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/26 "2006-11-16T23:28:47Z")
I used to work on software that had a module called “Digital Assets.” It was a pretty common mistake to leave the final t out of assets. Once, it even crept into the beta interface briefly, before it was caught and corrected. We decided “Digital Asses” were what we had from never leaving the office. That’s my personal favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/27 "2006-11-16T23:32:06Z")
Just last night, someone on City of Villains misspelled Gang War ( a power ) as “Wang War”, in the phrase “Wang War is fun”. “Depends on your tastes” was my response. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/28 "2006-11-16T23:37:03Z")
I used to have a book by a “Gobfrey Shrdlu” (actually Denys Parsons), which included a reprint along the lines of: “The Parish Notes would like to correct the name of the exhibition advertised in last week’s edition, that took place in the Church Hall on Sunday. This should have read ‘Smocking and Rugs’, not ‘Smoking Drugs’. We apologise to Miss Edna Smith for the misunderstanding.” ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/29 "2006-11-16T23:37:39Z")
I cannot, for the life of me, ever type “ratio” without adding a “n” on the end. Even when I think about it as I do it. Even when I type really slowly and think, as I do it, “OK, you know you have this problem, so don’t hit the - damn!” Even when I’m typing it in a thread about typos. As far as I’m concerned, the only way to type it is to type r a t i o n backspace I have a very dismal ration of typing ratio correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/30 "2006-11-16T23:56:04Z")
It’s easy enough to figure out that “teh” means _the_ or that “Chevrolte” should be _Chevrolet_, but the potential confusion of _not_ for _now_ (and vice versa) is fraught\* with peril. Consider the difference in meaning between “She is not a college graduate” and “She is now a college graduate”, for instance. \*Although it was a confusion of words as opposed to a true typo, I once wrote a paper in which I constantly typed _wrought_ when I meant _fraught_. And I was in college from 1977-81, long before computers (or even word processors) had attained prominence over typewriters and correction fluid! ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/31 "2006-11-17T03:38:12Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] My most common is to forget the space right before “the.” This gives me many cases of inthe, onthe, and tothe. “Adn” is also common for me as is “fmaily” which I use at work quite a lot. [/QUOTE] _tot he_ for _to the_ is a common one of mine. I think peoples’ typos are distinctive enough I wouldn’t try to take on another persona online. My typos would tell the truth. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/32 "2006-11-17T04:13:28Z")
I often slip into typing phonetically. Having grown up in Appalachia, that means I often type “are” for “our.” The campus on which I work offers a number of program in agriculture. I have learned that I always need to make sure I have typed “dairy,” not “diary.” (This reminds me of a quip a friend made about this typo: “The Dairy of Anne Frank.” He said, "It’s like ‘Equus,’ but with cows.) ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/33 "2006-11-17T04:25:06Z")
My mom had a memorable typo, which she fortunately caught before it went out. You’d think replacing “ng” with “on” at the end of a word wouldn’t be so bad – except she typed, “I’m so sorry to hear of your wife’s _passion_” instead of “_passing_.” My own typos are too numerous to describe. I’ve got autocorrect set to pick up the majority of them, fortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/34 "2006-11-17T04:35:14Z")
I was helping type up a group newsletter - the group’s national headquarters were then in New York - but that’s not how it came out on the return address: a bunch of people got the newsletter showing it as “New Your”. Sigh. As it is, my very-appropriate current typo is to misspell the word “confusled”, er, confused. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/35 "2006-11-17T07:34:50Z")
The best typo I’ve seen here, in my opinion is **puppygod**. ---
**Author:** ![bundykala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bundykala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bundykala)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/36 "2006-11-17T07:49:33Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] The best typo I’ve seen here, in my opinion is **puppygod**. [/QUOTE] I like. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/37 "2006-11-17T07:54:12Z")
I once typed to my (ex) fiance that when I saw him next, I was going to give him a big **kick** on the lips. Oops. I’m also fond of the commonly seen **thanos** , instead of “thanks”. I was a teenager when I first started using the Internet, and I would see it written in chatrooms on mIRC, and for some reason, it took me forever to figure out they were saying “thanks”, and not just calling out to some random stranger named Thanos. So seeing it now makes me giggle. And also causes me to think of some dude named Thanos, nodding in acknowledgement each time his name is typed. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/38 "2006-11-17T07:57:41Z")
And I nearly forgot: Prayer Beards. ---
**Author:** ![Dinaroozie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Dinaroozie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinaroozie)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/39 "2006-11-17T09:29:52Z")
Along similar lines to ‘abou tit’… the act of typing “Hey are you busty?” instead of “Hey are you busy?” in an online conversation is packed with comic potential. I have, to date, never actually hit enter at the end of such a comment (thankfully), but I’ve made the typo, and then corrected it, more times than I can count. C’mon, the T is right next to the Y! My mind is pure! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/40 "2006-11-17T09:38:18Z")
I shuffle “e” out of place. Back when I played a text-based multiplayer game, I kept typing gso instead of gos (“gossip”, general talk channel). So in the end I just made an alias: that way, when I typed gso, my client sent it to the server as gos and it worked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681.md?page=3)