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<blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 1939696" data-attributes="member: 7533">No, I think it's a little simpler than that, Sam...It's entirely common, when typing quickly, to transpose two letters within a word.&nbsp; Your brain goes into typing auto-pilot mode, and one hand briefly gets ahead of the other.&nbsp; It's the same reason why 'teh' is such a common replacement for 'the'.Or, when your brain goes on auto-pilot, you inadvertantly fall back on certain letter order combinations that are more often used and easier for your fingers to type.&nbsp; In the case of rogue, 'ou' is a much more often used combination in the english language than 'ue'.&nbsp; It's only natural for us to put that 'o' after the 'u', if you aren't paying attention.The real problem isn't so much that people mis-type or mis-spell the word...&nbsp; Everyone makes mistakes, after all... but that they don't take the (very small amount of) time to quickly proofread their posts for obvious spelling and grammar mistakes.&nbsp; That, and most of us are too lazy to go back and edit a post once a mistake has been noticed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pbartender, post: 1939696, member: 7533"] No, I think it's a little simpler than that, Sam... It's entirely common, when typing quickly, to transpose two letters within a word. Your brain goes into typing auto-pilot mode, and one hand briefly gets ahead of the other. It's the same reason why 'teh' is such a common replacement for 'the'. Or, when your brain goes on auto-pilot, you inadvertantly fall back on certain letter order combinations that are more often used and easier for your fingers to type. In the case of rogue, 'ou' is a much more often used combination in the english language than 'ue'. It's only natural for us to put that 'o' after the 'u', if you aren't paying attention. The real problem isn't so much that people mis-type or mis-spell the word... Everyone makes mistakes, after all... but that they don't take the (very small amount of) time to quickly proofread their posts for obvious spelling and grammar mistakes. That, and most of us are too lazy to go back and edit a post once a mistake has been noticed. [/QUOTE]

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