Words you have difficulty typing

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

I'm a pretty fast typist, but for some reason certain words just stop me in my tracks. Like 'finance' and 'manager'. I always end up typing 'finanace' and 'manger'. WTF?

There's no logical explanation, they just don't rattle off my fingers as unthinkingly as everything else.

There may be a thread for this somewhere else but I can't find one, yo.

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Englightenment.

I always have to go back and correct it to stop it turning into English. Like I did not up there, except I'm going to leave it to prove I have trouble with it.

Enlighsiment. Englightenment. Englishtment.

ARGH!

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

teh

― teh, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

"sorry"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

necessary
language
certain

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I thought this was going to about words you have moral difficulty typing. One place I worked, the publisher wrote out his weekly editorials in longhand and had the receptionist type them up. But the receptionist was a pious woman who frowned on all the bad language in the office, and when the publisher used an occasional "damn" or "hell," she would just type dashes and leave them for the editors to fill in later.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

See, there are lots of words I have difficulty *spelling* - such as necessity - but Enlightenment is one of the few that I'm fine writing longhand, but just can't type.

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

pyschology

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

group – always turns into gropu

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

group grope

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

becasue

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

"the" = not "teh" but "hte"

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

pension = penison

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah becasue
and mintue

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

when typing obits:

Littl eRock

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

when typing my address I never capitalize the L - North little Rock

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Is that Freudian Luna?

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

chris, i always type "christ." just did, actually.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Chrsitine
Trsitram
Hpow
Remeber

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

again, when typing obits at the speed of sound:

Mehtodist

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

synthesizer

but over the past few days i've gotten a little better at it

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

obits at the speed of sound:

I like that phrase.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Remeber, Nihgt

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

trust - tryst
hte - the

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

myslef

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I've recently noticed that I have trouble typing 'Goole' without putting in a second g.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

for some reason whenever I have to type "soul" it ends up "sould." Yeah, I know it makes no sense.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

"Mnemonic", it's impossible I swear. You'd think that this is a word that would be used infrequently, but I write software in an industry where this is used a lot. Gah. Go on try it, it's impossible.

― Mark P-a- (Assumed persona), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

yhaoo.com

fortunately, many others have this problem, which was why that domain was also purchased and redirects to the proper site

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

ot = to
paly = play

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

matierial

NEVER material, even when handwritten.

― JTS, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

DOOT DOOT

― SHAVY PUBES BEAR, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

CONSTITUTION IS THE HARDEST WORD TO TYPE, TRY IT!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

ameliorate

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

"i love you will you marry me?"

typical man can't bring myself to type that even though we've been seeing each other for 7 years and the pressure's really on from family and friends etc.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

when typing obits at the speed of sound:

"Throckmorton" from today's paper is my new favorite name of the moment.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Despite the fact I've lived and worked there for years, I can't type Paisley. I get as far as the "ai" and then continue by typing my name instead.

I also consistently mis-type Aberdeen as Abderdeen, but I have no idea why that is.

I once tried to post to Sinister about the Trash Can Sinatras and ended up typing then deleting my references to the Trash Can Sinisters about fifteen times. Serves me right for being twee.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Nietzsche: the letters z and s give me awful trouble, the Niet and che bits are okay.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Oh ya, there's this one EVERY FREAKIN' time: Brian comes out Brain. Half the time I don't notice, but he does. Arrrgh.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

PP have you read "a short history of a small place"?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

No, I haven't. Is it any good? I get skittish about those Southern "must-read's".

I also can't type most of my passwords correctly the first time.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

"doctor" cos my hand wants to go from the t to the r OMG that's what I said to your mom last night

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

mistakes you make so often at work your co-workers have become fond of them

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

That was my first thought too, oops.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

CONSTITUTION IS THE HARDEST WORD TO TYPE, TRY IT!

oh this is so true. two semesters of constitutional (contstiutoinal) law have made me hate this word. now i'm thinking of doing my honours in it as well. i think i might have to allocate a keyboard shortcut on my laptop.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

throckmorton was the settler that "throgs neck" is named after.

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

mimunum minumim minimum

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

i constantly misspell the kimberley region of WA as kibmerly

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

When receipting lots of things fast, I sometimes end up with some 'Tax Invoiec's.

Also some websites end in 'c.om'

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

marraige.

marriage.

whatever.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

What word(s) do you hate hate hate typoing out?

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

Wednesday

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

'friend' usually ends up as 'firned'
'unknown' is better now i had to type it hundreds of times in a week

i think a lot of this stems from a desire to type with alternating hands, if you see what i mean, one character with the left, one with the right etc.

when i'm typing unix command lines "| tee" usually comes out as "| tess". i don't know why. tee would be easier to type.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

I always find when I type quickly, that I get the word "Grout" wrong, and end up substituting the last letter p for a t, for obvious reasons...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

my OWN DAMN NAME for some reason. at least 20 times a day i type "e,,a"

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

"prairie," absolutely cannot manage this at a full clip

― feverdream, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.