Do you ever type or write a word and it just looks wrong to you?

I have this happen all the time. It’s especially weird when it’s a simple word I spell all the time. The last time it happened to me, it was the word “warranty”—My brain thought it should be spelled “warrantee.” the correct spelling looked wrong and the bad spelling looked correct. It was driving me crazy. Heck it STILL looks wrong to me.

I remember when I was younger, the word string seemed really weird to me. It looks weird and sounds weird.

Nupe.

Yes. Sometimes when I stare at a word too long, it seems to temporarily become just a jumble of letters or looks misspelled.

Yes Yes Yes Yes, it does. I’m not sure what the psychological explanation is for this, but it also happens to me with other things (noses, eyes, faces, etc).

@tom_g do you mean actual noses look wrong or that nose looks wrong but noses looks right?

Floccinaucinihillpillification.

When our brain reads words what it does is it takes the first letter, the last letter, and then jumbles up the middle letters until it retrieves the most likely word for the context it’s in. Probably for many years your brain has internally stored young female as “gril” and has overlooked the many times the world has misspelled it. So now when you really look at it it seems wrong.

I always struggle with “consensus.” Now that I think about it, any words that have multiple cees or esses tend to be problematic for me. Brain lisp, no doubt.

@picante Brain lisp. I like it. We use brainfart a lot.

@rojo: “do you mean actual noses look wrong or that nose looks wrong but noses looks right?”

Just noses in general. But usually starts with one person. I might be staring at the nose and discover that it is just really f*cking strange, and it just doesn’t look right. To me, it feels similar to that feeling I occasionally get of looking at a word and finding that it seems completely foreign or wrong.

I had a teacher named Mr. Feild.

I still have a hard time spelling “field” correctly.

And, any American/British differences, I tend to favour the British spelling. This just comes from growing up reading Tolkien and Rudyard Kipling. Besides, they had the language first.

Nu-hu. They stole it. Mostly from the Angles and Saxons but also some from the Jutes, Normans, Vikings, Greeks, Romans and the Piglatins.

Haddaway & shite man, a got nowt but me arn patta.

I have this happen a lot as well when I am tired or have a long day at work. I have write and type all day for my job.

Definitely.

(^^ two-fold response)

@dxs sorry, @RealEyesRealizeRealLies stole your joke. to the volcano for you

Curmudgeon.

Whenever I type the word “wrong” it looks wrong to me.

Too meta @Rarebear . Still got Lurve, though

more than ever, these days. even the ones I used to know.

when I was young, for some reason, my cousin and I used to find the word “pardon” utterly hilarious. Not wrong, necessarily, but we’d say it over and over just to hear the sound of it and double up with laughter.

For a while the word “open” looked strange . . .

Ice Cream

Every word that has a “u” in it

The word “err” looks odd written out. I never thought about it until one of my friends pointed it out to me a couple of weeks ago when I wrote it in a work email. When I really thought about it, I realized that I’d never actually written that word before even though I’ve always used it in oral communication.

Gray will never make sense to me. i live in America, so it should. But nope. I like Grey.

One day I typed “when” about 25 times. No matter how I typed it—it just looked wrong. It was as if my brain was erased by an alien and put a bucket of mush (small one at that) in its place. I ended up asking a friend to look at it and it sent her into a giggle fit. I am glad I made someone happy that day.

Today, ” label ” looks wrong.