Citations:writo

English citations of writo

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1993 May 15, Russ Hunt, “going with the typo”, in bit.listserv.mbu-l‎^[1] (Usenet):
He moved on to discuss errors beyond the typo -- the speako, the writo, and ultimately the conceivo (walking up to the combination-locked door on our computer lab, I reach into my pocket and pull my keys out).
1996 October 20, Natalie Maynor, “Re: Att: Amari-San”, in bit.listserv.mbu-l‎^[2] (Usenet):
I think I mentioned that in recent years I seem to be making more writos than I used to -- baubles in something I'm writing by hand.
2001 July 30, Crossfire [username], “Re: My secret is out...”, in alt.callahans‎^[3] (Usenet):
Other than that, she has only a few "writos" (analogs to typos), and almost no other useage^[sic] or grammar errors.
2008 October 12, dee.cee.vee [username], “Vista vs Tablet [ Vista the Winner ]”, in microsoft.public.windows.tabletp‎^[4] (Usenet):
I am much quicker at writing than typing and I make many more typos than I do "writos."
2015, Tony Fairman, "Language in print and handwriting", in Letter Writing and Language Change (eds. Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier, & Richard J. Watts), Cambridge University Press (2015), →ISBN, page 69:
After individual styles, hapax legomena and writos (slips of writers' pens, as typos are accidental but patterned slips of typists' fingers) have been identified and isolated, the structures of the language of all writers can be researched.