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  • B benjymous

    Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? When working on image related stuff, I quite often discover (when compiling) huge quantities of "Heigth"s in my code instead of "Height" (of course they only get spotted as errors when I type them correctly in the definitions, and wrongly thereafter) Normally my fingers just automatically type the correct words, but for some reason there seems to be a crossed line when it comes to heigth -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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    Richard Green
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    Yeah, Usually with the word "Color" as "Colour", the proper english spelling of the word, i have an entire module where i misspelt percent as precent aswell :)

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    • B benjymous

      Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? When working on image related stuff, I quite often discover (when compiling) huge quantities of "Heigth"s in my code instead of "Height" (of course they only get spotted as errors when I type them correctly in the definitions, and wrongly thereafter) Normally my fingers just automatically type the correct words, but for some reason there seems to be a crossed line when it comes to heigth -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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      Tim Smith
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      Blast from the past: "fomrat" Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?

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      • B benjymous

        Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? When working on image related stuff, I quite often discover (when compiling) huge quantities of "Heigth"s in my code instead of "Height" (of course they only get spotted as errors when I type them correctly in the definitions, and wrongly thereafter) Normally my fingers just automatically type the correct words, but for some reason there seems to be a crossed line when it comes to heigth -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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        Paul Watson
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        benjymous wrote: Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? I find it incredibly hard to do the following sequence over and over again:

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        I also consistentally misspell "misspel" and "behavouir". regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

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        • D David Stone

          My writing teacher said that I'm the only kid she's ever had not misspell a single word on an in-class impromptu essay. Whenever I type in Word, it rarely has to correct anything. My friends hate my ability to spell and to point out their typos I literally have to ignore the mistakes because they stick out at me from the screen(or page(probably a bad sign that I thought of screen first)). Not meaning to brag or anything. :) David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com
          MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

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          Matt Gullett
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          Clearly a sychopath! :-D

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          • B benjymous

            Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? When working on image related stuff, I quite often discover (when compiling) huge quantities of "Heigth"s in my code instead of "Height" (of course they only get spotted as errors when I type them correctly in the definitions, and wrongly thereafter) Normally my fingers just automatically type the correct words, but for some reason there seems to be a crossed line when it comes to heigth -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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            David Stone
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            My writing teacher said that I'm the only kid she's ever had not misspell a single word on an in-class impromptu essay. Whenever I type in Word, it rarely has to correct anything. My friends hate my ability to spell and to point out their typos I literally have to ignore the mistakes because they stick out at me from the screen(or page(probably a bad sign that I thought of screen first)). Not meaning to brag or anything. :) David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com
            MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

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            • R Roger Wright

              Tim Smith wrote: "fomrat" THat was lot harder to correct on the Hollerith cards, too! My pet peeve is the lazy finger I've devloped that doesn't release the caps key fast enough (see previous sentence). It's been happening more and more lately.

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              Roger Wright wrote: My pet peeve is the lazy finger I've devloped that doesn't release the caps key fast enough I do that with the shift button. Especially in mid sentence with names. So you end up being ROger Wright (strangely I always release it fast enough on the surname) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

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              • B benjymous

                Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? When working on image related stuff, I quite often discover (when compiling) huge quantities of "Heigth"s in my code instead of "Height" (of course they only get spotted as errors when I type them correctly in the definitions, and wrongly thereafter) Normally my fingers just automatically type the correct words, but for some reason there seems to be a crossed line when it comes to heigth -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                peterchen
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                Not while coding, but alas, when the forces of darkness make me programming "user" machines in the crude language of "plain English", I typically do ' ==> # (like "Ophelia#s boyfriend") tion ==> iton (like revoluiton) There *is* some typing error I used to do with nested loops:

                for(int i=0; i < n1; ++i )
                for(int j=0; j < n2; ++i )
                ...

                But I refrain from using j which surprisingly already fixes this metal bug.


                guns don't kill people. cars do.

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                • R Richard Green

                  Yeah, Usually with the word "Color" as "Colour", the proper english spelling of the word, i have an entire module where i misspelt percent as precent aswell :)

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                  Jon Newman
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                  Richard Green wrote: Usually with the word "Color" as "Colour", That completely baffled me when first coding. I didnt know why colours just weren't being applied. That and 'Disk' i always spell it Disc.

                  Jonny Newman Liverpool, UK Sonork: 16257:Jonny Newman MSN Msngr: jonathann4@hotmail.com ICQ: 37606329 I'm out there! Feel free to contact me about anything.

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                  • M Matt Gullett

                    Clearly a sychopath! :-D

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                    David Stone
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                    Matt Gullett wrote: Clearly a sychopath! That's **p**sychopath to you mister.;) David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com
                    MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

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                    • B benjymous

                      Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? When working on image related stuff, I quite often discover (when compiling) huge quantities of "Heigth"s in my code instead of "Height" (of course they only get spotted as errors when I type them correctly in the definitions, and wrongly thereafter) Normally my fingers just automatically type the correct words, but for some reason there seems to be a crossed line when it comes to heigth -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                      MS le Roux
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                      "descriptino" instead of "description" benjymous wrote: a crossed line when it comes to heigth :)

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                      • C Chris Maunder

                        UpdataData. Everytime without fail. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                        Nish Nishant
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                        Chris Maunder wrote: UpdataData. Yeah, that's a very common one. Also downlaod for download Nish


                        Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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                        • M Matt Gullett

                          I'm an awful speller. Looking back at some of my old code I have come across some really stupid stuff (ie. adress, poitner, etc.). Fortunantely, I consistently misspell the same words the same way repeatedly. Where it is really a problem, though, is when I misspell words that appear to the user.

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                          Nish Nishant
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                          Matt Gullett wrote: Fortunantely, I consistently misspell the same words the same way repeatedly. Oh! That allows you to make a global search/replace I guess :-) Nish


                          Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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                            Roger Wright wrote: My pet peeve is the lazy finger I've devloped that doesn't release the caps key fast enough I do that with the shift button. Especially in mid sentence with names. So you end up being ROger Wright (strangely I always release it fast enough on the surname) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

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                            Nish Nishant
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                            Paul Watson wrote: strangely I always release it fast enough on the surname ditto here Paul. Nish


                            Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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                            • B benjymous

                              Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? When working on image related stuff, I quite often discover (when compiling) huge quantities of "Heigth"s in my code instead of "Height" (of course they only get spotted as errors when I type them correctly in the definitions, and wrongly thereafter) Normally my fingers just automatically type the correct words, but for some reason there seems to be a crossed line when it comes to heigth -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                              Jon Newman
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                              This isnt a coding spelling typo really, but whenever i come across a word that i dont know how to spell. I will write it differently everytime it comes up in a paragraph just so as that chances of a correct spelling will be right. Very annoying for anyone who read my writing. That is if they ever could read my handwriting due to its complete illegibility (spell? ;P )

                              Jonny Newman Liverpool, UK Sonork: 16257:Jonny Newman MSN Msngr: jonathann4@hotmail.com ICQ: 37606329 I'm out there! Feel free to contact me about anything.

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                              • B benjymous

                                Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? When working on image related stuff, I quite often discover (when compiling) huge quantities of "Heigth"s in my code instead of "Height" (of course they only get spotted as errors when I type them correctly in the definitions, and wrongly thereafter) Normally my fingers just automatically type the correct words, but for some reason there seems to be a crossed line when it comes to heigth -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                                Robert Vista
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                                And I thought I was the only one! :)

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                                • D David Stone

                                  My writing teacher said that I'm the only kid she's ever had not misspell a single word on an in-class impromptu essay. Whenever I type in Word, it rarely has to correct anything. My friends hate my ability to spell and to point out their typos I literally have to ignore the mistakes because they stick out at me from the screen(or page(probably a bad sign that I thought of screen first)). Not meaning to brag or anything. :) David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com
                                  MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

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                                  Nish Nishant
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                                  David Stone wrote: Not meaning to brag or anything Of course!!! ;-) Nish


                                  Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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                                  • P Paul Watson

                                    benjymous wrote: Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? I find it incredibly hard to do the following sequence over and over again:

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                                    I also consistentally misspell "misspel" and "behavouir". regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

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                                    Nish Nishant
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                                    Paul Watson wrote: I find it incredibly hard to do the following sequence over and over again: target="_blank"> Man!!! He's a tough nut, he sure is :-) LOL Nish


                                    Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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                                    • D David Stone

                                      Matt Gullett wrote: Clearly a sychopath! That's **p**sychopath to you mister.;) David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com
                                      MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

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                                      benjymous
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                                      maybe that was irony -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                                      • B benjymous

                                        Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? When working on image related stuff, I quite often discover (when compiling) huge quantities of "Heigth"s in my code instead of "Height" (of course they only get spotted as errors when I type them correctly in the definitions, and wrongly thereafter) Normally my fingers just automatically type the correct words, but for some reason there seems to be a crossed line when it comes to heigth -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                                        Jim A Johnson
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                                        teh COunt These two drive me insane.

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                                        • B benjymous

                                          Does anyone else find that they frequently misstype a particular word when coding? When working on image related stuff, I quite often discover (when compiling) huge quantities of "Heigth"s in my code instead of "Height" (of course they only get spotted as errors when I type them correctly in the definitions, and wrongly thereafter) Normally my fingers just automatically type the correct words, but for some reason there seems to be a crossed line when it comes to heigth -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                                          Richard Deeming
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                                          bugger (instead of buffer:) ) Who put that damn "g" next to the "f"?!

                                          "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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