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A long time ago, in a galaxy just over there, on 2 Dec 2003 09:36:37 -0800, a big jerkass called [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Sanders) opened their mouths and this happened: >> >Why do you write "whit" *repeatedly* for "with" >> [..] >> >but you don't write "wath" for "what?" Just curious, because you do it >> >every time, so it can't be a typo =) >> >> Transposition of characters is the easiest of typoes to amke, and can be > >LOL! > >> extremely consistent as well. The i and the a are on entirely different >> bits of the keyboard, so have vastly different hand positions, and thus a >> correspondingly different chance of a certain trnasposition happening. >> >> Jasper > >Interesting. Still, I would be more likely to have left it alone if I >found a single "with" spelled correctly. That's very strange, to do it >every time, no? If I'm going to put two keys in the wrong order, I will generally write "wiht" instead of "with." But I proof-read, and so does Janica, so most of the time we do okay. C&J -- 13 & 13b of the CMM Collective "OK, Angels. Let's show this man what six collective breasts can do to evil." - Forsaken_1, "Charlie's Angels". Now go here: www.afrj-monkeyhouse.org
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