Re: OT: is there some word you always mistype?

Jess Askin wrote:

For me it's "Michael." I don't know why it is, but it always comes out
Micahel. .


My most frequent one is hitting the semicolon for an apostrophe, so I get a lot of "don;t", "can;t", etc. I've put some of these into Word's autocorrect.

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Rob Bannister
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