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Originally Posted by Fazor
I know there's certian words that when I type them, they always end up wrong. The one I can think of is "actual". For some reason, when I type it, I always type "Actually" even when I'm saying "actual" in my head (yes, I speak the words I'm typing to myself in my head).
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Ah, this may be a clue to the problem we're talking about. I do the same thing with "actually", and the reason simply is that I type "actually" a lot more than "actual", and somehow it becomes a habit. Not all signals go all the way to our brain. When writing patterns I think that there is some amount of autonomy of nerves, so we remember patterns. And if you type a certain word a lot, you may end up typing that word when you want to type a similar word. I think it's very normal. There is another word that I often do that with, but I can't remember what it is.
In any case, regarding the OP, I don't think there is a term for the original query, between "a few" and "a view". I think simply that the two terms are associated in some way in your mind, and you mistake them. Sometimes that phenomenon turns into what is called a "malapropism", but I don't think that's what you're talking about.