Revealing typos

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Thu Oct 25 20:03:50 UTC 2012


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.

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