Worst typos you've-hopefully-caught

[lovecraft68]

Working on the final scene of an e-book and I have a habit of rereading the last few lines if I have to stop for whatever reason to get back in the flow.

I discovered this gem in the last line "She grabbed her shit, and peeled it off."

Well, that's nasty. What makes it nastier is spellcheck may not catch that, as it notes shit as a word. I'm not the greatest typist, confounding that I have issues with a couple of my left fingers from a prior surgery so I have to be really careful in final edits to find things like this where the typo might not be detectable by a program.

I remember a similar one that I caught when reading my final draft to my wife which is my last stop for editing as it makes me see every word as I read.

He slid his arms around her slender waste.

I told my wife the mistake and her comment was "well, at least her ass is tight if its slender"

Worst one you've caught in editing your-or another's-work or seen here?

 

[NoJo]

The sentence could have been worse, she could have raised it over her head before flinging it carelessly across the room

 

[RichardKimble]

Always the classic Pubic vs Public.

I work in a field tangentially related to Medicine. I've received dozens of resumes over the years with people listing their PhD or Masters in "Pubic Health."

Cheers,
RichardK

 

[LAHomedog]

Yeah, pubic vs. public is always a problem.

Probably my worst which is published and on here, in one of my stories there is a seduction dinner of crab, melted butter, and artichokes. But I typed it as "crap and melted butter." Of course missed by spellcheck and Grammarly since crap is a word.

Yeah, that scrumptious seduction dinner of cracked crap and melted butter. Yumbo!

 

[dirtylittlecucker]

Mine was in a text to my boss: Hey, I'm done with your shit and turning my phone off when I get home.


It was supposed to say shift. I worked a double shift, mine and his. He walked on eggshells around me for a week before he finally asked what he did wrong. I felt so bad


Here, I mostly just skip words or use the wrong homophone. I can't think of an especially bad one off the top of my head, but I'm certain a few horrible ones exist in my stories.

this made me laugh out loud!


I find typos if I stop mid sentence, and return after changing my thought, then I find find double words. that makes me crazy.

 

[DeeceeBee]

Real life text exchange between me and female colleague

DCB we need to go back to visit <client> in Northampton next week. How busty are you?
FC I’m stacked mate
DCB (anticipating call from HR)oh shit I meant Busy
FC what did you think I meant?

In the interests of full disclosure, yes she is mightily stacked. Fortunately also has a sense of humour.

 

[TadOverdon]

I typed "floating moments" the other day and cannot convince my software that I don't mean "fleeting moments."

 

[windar]

Lying prostate on the floor...

 

[mynameisben]

I'm pretty good at catching typos, actually. Homophones don't trip me up. It's the occasional word that misspells into another correctly spelled word that can slip by me, but even those are pretty rare. The most common "typo" that I fall victim to is an omitted word, like a missing "a" or "the" in a sentence.

Ben

 

[NotWise]

I'm pretty good at catching typos, actually. Homophones don't trip me up. It's the occasional word that misspells into another correctly spelled word that can slip by me, but even those are pretty rare. The most common "typo" that I fall victim to is an omitted word, like a missing "a" or "the" in a sentence.

Ben

That would just make you sound Chinese.

 

[mynameisben]

That would just make you sound Chinese.

Well it's a mistake I make, at most, only once in an entire story. So maybe I have a 10th generation Chinese ancestor, thrice removed.


Ben

 

[KimGordon67]

Not a Lit author, so not even qualified to contribute to this thread ... but I have a nasty habit of missing the negative qualifiers out of often Very Important sentences. I can't think of a specific example, but it would be something along the lines of saying 'I did sleep with your brother' instead of 'I did not sleep with your brother' - the sort of thing that makes your sentence mean the literal opposite of what you wanted to say. Often when I'm typing hastily, including situations that might be a bit emotionally fraught.

 

[TxRad]

LC, I thought your worst one was where you wrapped your arms around her waste.

 

[SimonDoom]

LC, I thought your worst one was where you wrapped your arms around her waste.

I've made this error. I did it in my last story, Teddy Bear, as EB pointed out to me in his comment.

"Incredibly, Teddy Bear's soft paws were on her waste, and his grip was implausibly strong."


Ouch.

 

[LAHomedog]

I've made this error. I did it in my last story, Teddy Bear, as EB pointed out to me in his comment.

"Incredibly, Teddy Bear's soft paws were on her waste, and his grip was implausibly strong."


Ouch.

That's the Grammarly problem. If it's a real word, it passes. That's why I served the wonderful seduction dinner of "cracked crap."

And that's why I now have an English teacher as one of my proof readers.

 

[PoisonPen33]

There's a big difference between "KT tape" and "KY tape."

Or, when it comes to pronunciation, I always pronounce "brazier" as "brassiere."

 

[Wifetheif]

I had a small-town cop dealing with buglers instead of burglars! Made it through every spell check! But the more I thought about it buglers are pretty obnoxious.

 

[Thefireflies]

Something always gets through and after a quick perusal of my most recently published story I found "…some bastard back here took me misuses and kids…”

 

[PennameWombat]

Lying prostate on the floor...

Or, the other side of this. A commenter a week or so ago pointed out that in one of my early stories (two plus years old) that my female MC had tickled my male MC’s prostrate gland…

Missed that. And no one before that commenter had thought to bring it up.

Or, no one else had noticed .

 

[lovecraft68]

LC, I thought your worst one was where you wrapped your arms around her waste.

Who says that was a typo? People have fetishes, ya know.

 

[TxRad]

Who says that was a typo? People have fetishes, ya know.

That admission makes me check the waist every time I type it. Thanks for the help.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Lately, I've started to drop off the last letter of some words.

Now comes up a no a lot.

They turns into the.

Those are the two that it happens to the most.

 

[lovecraft68]

That admission makes me check the waist every time I type it. Thanks for the help.

Always happy to help people avoid making fools of themselves the way I do. Lead by example I always say.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have a long time typing glitch where the words Hands on become handson, one word.

I also cannot for the life of me spell rhythm. What I did just now is what I do in my writing, I type it wrong and let spellcheck fix it. I have a legit mental block on that word.

If someone walked up and offered me $1000 right there to spell it, I couldn't even come close.

Bizarre

 

[CurvySassyAJ]

On a story I am slowly working on, I decided to tak a break from a series I have been writing, but I slowly realised I kept writing the old characters name. Not every where but I could tell where my mind was at times. Thankfully find and replace works