Geof Huth, East Caroga Lake, New York (photo by NF Huth)I am always mistyping some word by replacing it with the word
word. The word might be
work or
wood or
worm or
would, maybe sometimes
worn but my ear hears my mind say something else and tells my fingers to type what they expect from me, a
word. It is a bad habit, one invisible to me, often, when I'm writing, and, even later, when I'm proofreading. The other week, I had to read a poem aloud three times before I saw that
wood had become
wo...
Published on June 29, 2010 19:58