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My greatest difficulty with typos is with double vowels. Thus school becomes scholl, book becomes bok, etc. That semms to be my biggest problem.
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Wow asks: Are you using one of those new double-side, curved thingamy keyboards??Nope, just a normal old straight-line 101-key keyboard. It's the touch I don't like. When I was in the Funan Techie Mall in Singapore a month or so ago, I tried out over 30 different keyboards and still couldn't find anything I liked. I guess it's just that no one makes good ones any more. 
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CapK suggested I guess it's just that no one makes good ones any more. Or maybe it's just those soon-to-be old hands of yours! 
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Having recently accepted the word "typo" - I still prefer typing error but I'll just have to go with the flow,
Reading the original post in this thread set me to a wonderin' ... isn't typo a shortening of typographical error and isn't that related to printing as in liotype machines? Or is this YART.
Anyone?
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I work in the environmental field - unfortunately when I type it, I appear to work in the enviromnetal field most of the time. At least that's one spell-check catches.
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My bug bear, for years, was univeristy. It never failed, the "sity" at the end was beyond me... Not to mention a letter that went out to faculty with the salutation, Dear Faulty Member. (Not my typo, thank god...)
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Reading the original post in this thread set me to a wonderin' ... isn't typo a shortening of typographical error and isn't that related to printing as in liotype machines? Or is this YART.
Yep, it's a printing term (not confined to linos) i.e. ancient history. I dunno if it's a YART.
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Just be REALLY glad you don't work in the Office of Pubic Affairs.
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Yes, some typos are more significant than others. I once set a caption for a picture right slap bang in the centre of Page 1 of the newspaper. The picture showed a yacht in distress, and it was taken from a P3 Orion which had been doing SAR and found it. The caption was meant to read something like "An RNZAF P3 Orion drops a raft to the yacht in distress." I transposed the "r" and the "f" in "raft". Oops! 
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>isn't typo a shortening of typographical error and isn't that related to printing as in liotype machines?
I'm sure that this is true but then, how many of us are referring to our linotype skills when we use the term?
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