Revealing typos

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Oct 25 20:08:59 UTC 2012


On Oct 25, 2012, at 4:03 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:

> I just received a laudatory email from a kind woman. It contained a
> typo that I found humorous:
>
> "crowd-sourced" was transformed into "crowd-soured".
>
> There are names for some types of wordplay humor, e.g., Spoonerisms,
> but I do not know if there is name for this type of typo.
>
Freudian?

LH

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