On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 07:06:44 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

In article ,
says...
On 2 Sep 2008 14:34:02 -0500, Dave wrote:

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:27:42 -0700, "Capt. JG" said:

when I decided not to go further than the entrance to Raccoon Straight.
I think you meant " strait ".
I don't often point out spelling errors, but I will make an exception
for straight/strait. Strait means constricted and the garment is a
straitjacket. A strait can be crooked as cat ****.

Casady


Wow, a typo.

Um...to most of us a typo is hitting a key when we intended to hit another
key. Adding a couple of extra letters to make a different word is not a
typo.


I disagree. A typo is when you type something other than what you
meant to type. If I type "their" when I meant to type "there", it is a
typo. Typo is the shortened form of "Typographical Error". It simply
means you didn't type what you were supposed to type.



typographical error
n.
A mistake in printing, typesetting, or typing, especially one caused by
striking an incorrect key on a keyboard.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

:-)


A typographical error (aka typo) is when one of the punchers (that's a
typist, to a layman) in composing inadvertently types a complete
'graph from one story into the middle of another when typesetting. The
puncher may have to hit a couple hundred wrong keys to accomplish
that, but it's still a typo. Even if it contains no misspelled words,
it's still a typo.