Unconscious Errors

~ beetleypete

Looking back on old posts as I reblog them, I noticed some consistent spelling errors. That led me to check on some recent comments I have left and posts published this year.

Words including the letter ‘W’ are easily explained, as my keyboard has an issue with that letter, and I have to hit it very hard (or twice) for a ‘W’ to register. That is why you will often see my usual ‘Best wishes’, appearing as ‘Best ishes’. I could change the keyboard, but it was a gift from Julie, so will hang onto it a bit longer. I have tried to ‘fiddle’ with the ‘W’ key, but it doesn’t appear to want to budge.

However, other mistakes are less easy to explain. I contantly mis-type the word ‘Remember’, leaving out the second ‘M’, and ending up with ‘Remeber’. I do this so often, it seems I have a blind spot of some kind when it comes to the word.

‘Because’ is another one. I seem to type ‘Becuase’ as frequently as the correct spelling.

When you consider how carefully I check text before posting, I wonder why I miss those errors on a daily basis.

Is this a sign of some kind of mental degeneration, I wonder? Anyone else experiencing something similar, or is it just me?

60 thoughts on “Unconscious Errors”

  3. I’m the worst Pete, I try and edit my work but I miss a lot. If someone points it out I go in and fix it, but it’s a blog, i think mistakes can be charming? That’s just me and I realize most people get annoyed with errors! Oh well, do your best, forget the rest, C

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  4. I have tried to ‘fiddle’ with the ‘W’ key, but it doesn’t appear to want to budge. Of course not! The fiddle “typically has four strings, usually tuned in perfect fifths with notes G3, D4, A4, E5.”

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  6. I can’t explain why, but as I’ve gotten older I tend to get the order of more letters mixed up. Pain becomes pain. I never seemed to have that problem when I was younger. I expected my body to break down with time, but not my typing.

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  7. You are not alone Pete! I think we’re so busy typing our thoughts – our brain going much faster than our fingers – that typos easily occur, even when we know the correct spelling. For me it’s often a missing word or duplicate word and more often in a comment than a post. I usually catch and correct them on my own blog, but it’s a bummer when it’s a comment on someone else’s. So then the question is – should I add a ‘correction’ comment to my previous comment? I sometimes do. But the real answer for me is to slow down and I’m still working on that. 🙂

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  9. I write my posts on my iPhone with its tiny, virtual keypad, and sometimes, when I tap the “n,” it doesn’t always register, so if I type “don’t,” it often comes up “do t.” And strangely, sometime a random “m” appears after a comma, so it might look like this: “Thank you m, Pete.”

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    1. If I use my tablet to send messages, I get identical errors to those, FD.
      I could never blog on a phone or tablet. The screen is too small, and the virtual keypad too annoying. 🙂
      Best wishes, Pete.

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  10. I have a tendency to type becasue instead of because because I type so fast and then don’t notice it until I do a grammerly check because I don’t look hard enough at the full word 🤣
    Also I type witht he instead of with the 🤣

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  16. This has been happening to me for a while. I have a wonky keyboard too which doesn’t help, but I find my fingers will get right letters but put them in the wrong order. I call it finger dyslexia.

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  18. It drives me bonkers when I consistently have to retype bc of errors on my phone”(I have the swiftkey app) … More and more I’m getting tired of the using my phone for everything!

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  20. I blame autocorrect or predictive text for a lot of the errors. I am mortified when I see too instead of to, and like one of your other followers I often mistype the – teh. My brain works faster than my fingers sometimes! And I have moaned many times that WP should give us the chance to preview our comments before hitting that post comment button.

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    1. I always use a PC keyboard, so cannot blame any auto-correct function. But like you, I do sometimes type far too fast without looking at what I am typing. 🙂
      Best wishes, Pete. x

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  21. It is our blind spot. I always type “the” as “teh” and MS word never marks it because in one unthinking moment, I added it to my dictionary. Recieve is always incorrect and i continue to ignore it. Course is always a curse.

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    1. I am very pleased to hear that I am not alone in making such errors, Shaily.
      (By the way, have you been posting anything lately? I have had no notifications at all, so just checking.)
      Best wishes, Pete.

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      1. No Pete! It was Ramadan and I was super busy with late and long prayers. I was also busy finishing my book. I am just waiting for my new bank account and it will be good to go world wide…or as far as amazon.com, amazon.uk can take it.

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  25. When you start writing you discover you have blind spots.
    I know what both the word ‘drawers’ and the word ‘draws’ mean but I will regularly use the wrong one.
    Because I know, I’ll run a search through the document when I’m finished!
    Then I find I can use ‘actually’ too often, so I’ll run a search on that as well.

    Strangely, Tallis Steelyard is a far better writer than I am when it comes to grammar errors 🙂

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  26. I don’t have recurring spelling errors but make the odd boo-boo. What I do do quite often is have a 2nd capital letter after an initial capital and a space after the ‘t’ in ‘the’. I have no idea why either!

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