# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**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, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/41 "2006-11-17T09:39:19Z")
All this time and nobody’s mentioned the famous “Penis ensued”? Or is that more of a brain fart than a typo? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/42 "2006-11-17T15:40:41Z")
[QUOTE=annanate] I can’t seem to type my own name. It should be ‘Becki’ but ends up being ‘Beclo’ about 95% of the time. [/QUOTE] I usually end up with Gweb or Gewn. – **gigi** , aka Gwen ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/43 "2006-11-17T15:49:13Z")
It’s long since been taken down, but my favorite was a young adult short story where a girl was “peering in the window” and the transcriber left out the _r]_. ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/44 "2006-11-17T17:40:03Z")
[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] Heck I can \*write \* that stuff wrong. As far as I’m concerned ‘withe’ is a perfectly acceptable word whether written or typed. I just can’t figure out the pronunciation. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SiouxChief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SiouxChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiouxChief)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/45 "2006-11-17T19:29:28Z")
I find it physically impossible to type the word **myself** at full speed. Instead, I always type **mysql**. Obviously due to my profession. (If only I had chosen PostgreSQL!) ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/46 "2006-11-18T00:11:48Z")
My friend composed a very professional e-mail to our boss, which unfortunately started out with, “Hell, Bart.” He never lived that one down. I kind of like when spellcheck thinks I meant to type Shiite when I very much meant to type “sh-t”… ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/47 "2006-11-18T04:30:19Z")
Heh, when I role-played on m\*'s (moos, muds, etc.) there were always some good ones. Occasionally instead of someone posing that they were sitting they were s **h** itting instead. Really changed the meaning… And on Pern-based ones, one of the common ones was a firelizard **s** hittering instead of **c** hittering. Nooo, I never did anything like that, really… Or, one that my SO did in a chat message to me: lave you! Err, yea, I lave you to hon… psst, what’s a lave? 😉 * * * \<\< Excuse me for butting in, but I’m interrupt-driven. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/48 "2006-11-18T07:10:23Z")
[QUOTE=Nightsong] Occasionally instead of someone posing that they were sitting they were s **h** itting instead. Really changed the meaning… [/QUOTE] In the game World of Warcraft your character can get drunk, causing you to “slur” your typing. This led to my favorite patch note / bug fix for the game: “Characters will no longer spout profanity when talking about ‘sitting’ while drunk.” My favorite typo happened to an online friend of mine. She sent me a message to let me know that the spacebar on her keyboard was sticking occassionally and therefore her text might be garbled. Except, since the spacebar on her keyboard was sticking, she told me the spacebaron was sticking. We’ve since created an entire backstory and mythos for the Space Baron, involving other typos we’ve created. ---
**Author:** ![Leah\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@Leah\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leah_M)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/49 "2006-11-18T07:59:59Z")
This isn’t one I make everyday, but at work we type in test codes for blood testing, and I frequently make the mistake of typing ‘POS’ instead of ‘PHOS’ for Phosphorous. :smack: And our Ionized Calcium is an ‘ICANOT’. We’re not very proactive around here. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/50 "2006-11-18T08:40:55Z")
I’m not very good with the space bar. I manage to always hit it before I’ve finished one word, so its last letter gets tacked onto its neighbor. For example, “why not” becoming “wh ynot”. And another one I do all the _freaking_ time is **realyl** instead of really. All of the words that end in “lly” tend to end up that way, and I can’t figure out how my fingers manage it. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/51 "2006-11-18T12:50:27Z")
At work, my biggest typo is **bathrub** instead of **bathtub**. I’ve had more than a few service techs ask me what a bathrub is and how do they unblock it. 😛 I too have a hard time typing my name. More often than not it comes out Krsita instead of Krista. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/52 "2006-11-18T15:35:55Z")
I find myself typing (or wanting to type) “cow-orkers” instead of “co-workers” in writings other than on this broad. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/53 "2006-11-18T16:03:33Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] I find myself typing (or wanting to type) “cow-orkers” instead of “co-workers” in writings other than on this broad. [/QUOTE] Great typo! I love the idea of a “cow-orker broad” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/54 "2006-11-19T01:30:39Z")
[QUOTE=TimeWinder] I write a lot of C++, and have a habit of leaving the “l” out of “public:”. It’s probably not my most common typo, but since it gets pointed out to me by the compiler or context-sensitive editor every time, I notice it more. As for someone else’s, the best I’ve seen is “Chicken Human” on a Chinese restaurant menu. (Should have been “Chicken Hunan,” I think). [/QUOTE] There’s a Chinese restaurant I go to for lunch that has “Mandarin Dried Rice” (instead of “Fried” rice). They also have “hot and spicy dishes in red” although the entire menu is printed in black. And yeah, as a programmer, I have a heck of a time typing “procedure” correctly the first time: proceudre, rpocedure, just about every spelling but the right one. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/55 "2006-11-19T03:24:53Z")
One of my duties at work is contacting vendors to find out how much they will charge us for hardware and/or services. I make the inquiry, and they send back a quote. Except I invariably type **qoute**. Of course, when typing this post, it took me three tries to misspell “quote” for my example. Sometimes I think my brain is really out to drive me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/56 "2006-11-19T03:27:11Z")
A couple of years ago I posted about the '66 MGB I’m having restored. Only I typed **'666** MGB. Considering the way the restoration went before I found a proper resto guy, the typo fit. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/57 "2006-11-19T10:34:44Z")
I frequently type, “let me know if I can be of assistance” when I really mean to say “do your fucking job, you lazy slacker.” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681/58 "2006-11-19T22:12:05Z")
I’m known by this nick on a few more boards, and when I type the short version of it, it sometimes comes out **Quasio** , and I have to chuckle, because I look nothing like that butter-commercial guy. 😃 Q [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-favorite-typos/380681.md?page=2)