"Forcing" for "divorcing?"

Kate Daly kdaly973 at VERIZON.NET
Mon Nov 26 13:10:12 UTC 2007


WordPerfect and Word both offer forcing as a correction for the typo fivorcing. Since the d and f are next to each other on a standard keyboard, it's probably an auto-corrected typo. Given the topic of her post, I think she can be excused for not checking her work more carefully.
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> From a post in the Minneapolis Freecycle mailing list:
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>"I have separated and will be forcing from my abusive husband."

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