Thread: Is there a name for this (linguistic/perception?) phenomnom?
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Old 16-May-2008, 08:27 PM
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01101001, that's a scary story! Hope everything is all right.

I almost started a thread a couple of weeks ago asking the same question as the OP: Why the heck do I keep typing homophones? There/their is the one that comes immediately to mind but there have been multiple others. I also add letters to things: "Ratio" almost always comes out as "ration". I'm an engineer so I use "ratio" frequently. I would seldom have occasion to actually mean "ration".

Anyhow, I guess I'm glad it's not just me.

For a description of the phenomenon (I typed that very carefully, and still got it wrong!) how about "distypsic"?
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