What is Typo?
1.
short for typographical error. a misspelling
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2.
1. The one instance of a particular word in what you've written that will bring out
2. A correctly spelled word that illiterate
3. The reason why spell-checkers were invented.
1. "The correct spelling of yelow is yellow."
"Maybe that's why I spelled it that way the other 36 times I used that word."
2. "You left the P out of homepage."
"If I had wanted to call my homage a homepage, I would have."
3. "I spell everything correctly! I use a spell-checker!"
"Spell-checkers don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, and neither do you."
3.
Spelling something wrong by mistake
I like teh green car.
Oops, I said "teh" instead of "the"! Stupid typo.
4.
An excuse for not knowing the correct spelling of a word.
1: Thats wierd, my indeviduality is deprishiating at an starteling rate
2: what?
1: Uh... typo
2: Moron.
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5.
An error in the placement of letters due to poor dexterity, lack of co-ordination or poor technique using a keyboard. Has no relation with the more common misspelling which has a completely different origin and with which it is often confused.
Simce I'm a kjluytz wiht teh keybaosr, I ,ake alot o f typso, adn no spekk cehcvker seems tomhelsp.
6.
A mis-spelling or mistake, esp. When using a keyboard.
Happens a damn sight more often if you have really fat fingers.
Danny_0198: "Hlep me! my huose is o nfire!"
Elitist_cracker_1: "Fuck you, n00b, write properly. i don't consort with idiots who make typos."
Elitist_cracker_1 has signed off.
Danny_0198:
...
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7.
One of those things that develops in your work as you print it.
Argh! I was printing out my work and I found *another* typo in it!
