Favorite Typos

althrasher · Dec 27, 2007

I think there may be another thread about this somewhere, but the thread about accidentally substituting your name just reminded me of it.

So what's been your favorite typo writing?

Mine is: "Very strong magicians don't need spells at all." But I wrote, "Very strong musicians don't need spells at all."

My dad found it hilarious.

Straka · Dec 27, 2007

I wrote some like the "...Captain scratched his bread..." instead of beard. It got a laugh out of my reader.

Stargazer · Dec 27, 2007

I just wrote a film script about a driving instructor based in Bedfordshire. However, my first scene-heading got typed (un-noticed) as Bedfordshite and it wasn't until some time later I realised Final Draft was auto-completing a typo'd word.

Still... It gave me a giggle.

donroc · Dec 27, 2007

Form insyead of from always shows up.

www.donaldmichaelplatt.com

Madison · Dec 27, 2007

I always find iSit, iLaugh, iSing... I should copyright those and sell 'em to Apple. I have a character named Finn and once I spelled it Fin...beware the shark!

I always have some good ones that break up the tedium of editing.

katiemac · Dec 27, 2007

Not one of mine, but as a writing tutor we tend to swap stories. Why spell check alone doesn't work:

"like a bunch of dirty cocks in a bachelor's apartment."

It was supposed to be socks.

althrasher · Dec 27, 2007

katiemac said:
Not one of mine, but as a writing tutor we tend to swap stories. Why spell check alone doesn't work:

"like a bunch of dirty cocks in a bachelor's apartment."

It was supposed to be socks.

In a bachelor's apartment? I'd buy the typo :tongue

geardrops · Dec 27, 2007

katiemac said:
Not one of mine, but as a writing tutor we tend to swap stories. Why spell check alone doesn't work:

"like a bunch of dirty cocks in a bachelor's apartment."

It was supposed to be socks.

That's not a typo, that's a Freudian slip.

otterman · Dec 27, 2007

I often discover that I've called my MC "Booby" instead of Bobby. I"ll try to keep abreast of such mistakes.

donroc · Dec 27, 2007

I also have done portrite instead of portrait. Freudian criticism?

www.donaldmichaelplatt.com

Straka · Dec 27, 2007

katiemac said:
"like a bunch of dirty cocks in a bachelor's apartment."

It was supposed to be socks.

Goes from erotica to nonfiction with one word!

AnnieColleen · Dec 27, 2007

I have a whole list from NaNo, and probably more undiscovered. (There's a previous thread on this, NaNo specific.)

...bringing an armful of fireword.
(firewood)

...giving a stir to the brother.
(broth)

They only set the clothes to dry on the buses.
(bushes)

She sploke
(spoke slowly)

Dried meat and dry bread were passed in, and a bucket of water and lady.
(ladle)

and the lumpy boxes that cracked his shins as they shoved him in.
('they' = soldiers, not boxes!)

"There were a number of men killed and wounded on both sides, you know, dead."
(dear)

"Hayve a seat, then"
(set in a barn)

Shady Lane · Dec 27, 2007

Haha, this one is infamous among my beta readers:

I licked strawberry off my finger

I typed this as: I licked strawberry off his finger.

and suddenly the scene took an unexpected homo-erotic turn...

KTC · Dec 28, 2007

Every time I go to type mean I type mena. It drives me nuts. Don't know if I'd call it my favourite...but it's my biggest stumbling block.

Voyager · Dec 28, 2007

My all time favorite is not one of mine. Although I have many, none are as funny to me as:

He slid his hand lower to gently strike her clot.

KTC · Dec 28, 2007

Voyager said:
My all time favorite is not one of mine. Although I have many, none are as funny to me as:

He slid his hand lower to gently strike her clot.

clots are very erogenous.

Voyager · Dec 28, 2007

So many witty responses, so little desire to get a mod smack down

Sebby said:
clots are very erogenous.

auntybug · Dec 28, 2007

Every frackin time!!! It couldn't be an easier word....

teh.....

everying frackin' time...

*sigh*

shoot me.

FennelGiraffe · Dec 28, 2007

I'm the queen of typos. I make more than I can possibly list. These are just a few of the ones I've been making frequently lately.

hte <-- the
int he <-- in the
form <-- from
from <-- form
genreal <-- general
is is <-- it is
the the <-- to the
scnen <-- scene
and <-- an

ACEnders · Dec 28, 2007

I typed "phenomena" instead of "Pneumonia"

johnzakour · Dec 28, 2007

Well, I'm the one who typed my name for my main character so that pretty mcuh spaeks for istelf. Thuogh I hvae been knwon to mkae ohter typos on ocacison.

Calla Lily · Dec 28, 2007

Not mine, but one of the best ever: Two male vampires are engaging in anal sex. One fixes the sheets in between, and the following happened as the word hyphenated from one line to the next:

He rear-
ranged the sheets.

Okay, I thought it was a greaT Freudian slip of the typesetter (having been a typesetter for many years).

NeuroFizz · Dec 28, 2007

I just can't seem to get ~~tipo~~ ~~typu~~ ~~tipu~~ ~~typoo~~ typo right.

Rowdymama · Dec 28, 2007

I don't write "typos" as much as I hear them. Once I heard a line on TV about the activities of pioneer women: "They would sit by the fire in the evenings piecing scraps into quilts."

What I heard was: "They would sit by the fire in the evenings piecing scalps into quilts."

Cozy, huh?

Due to a hearing problem, this happens to me all the time.

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Ravenlocks · Dec 28, 2007

Once I worked for a company that worked very closely with Countrywide Home Loans, so I typed the name a lot. Now every time I try to type "countryside" it comes out "countrywide," and suddenly instead of noticing the forests and marshes around them the characters in my fantasy novel are trying to get a home loan.

And I cannot for the life of me type the word "prince." It always comes out "rpince."

I had to set up autocorrects for both of these in Word because they were happening 100% of the time.

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