Classifying Typos

I consider the following classes of typos:

Real typos: When your fingers betray you, you meant to type again and typed agian instead.

Difficult Words: Words that you misspell because you never remember their spelling. For example typing agressive instead of aggressive because you don't recall that the word requires two g's.

Hardwired expansions: For instance, I type pb to get problem. This expansion is so deeply embedded in my brain that I don't need to include it in my expansion glossaries and see it in the expansion table.

Lazy shift typos: These involve only a correction in case. For instance, typing mri to get MRI.

To reflect this classification, I can organize my Typo Glossary Shell with four Typo Glossary includes:

• real_typos.xglo
• difficult_words.xglo
• hardwired_expansions.xglo
• lazy_shift_typos.xglo

This is just one way of organizing things. Alternatively, I could group all my typos in the Typo Shell Glossary.

But I am a strong advocate of organizing my expansions in several includes. By the way, last week I created a lazy shift typo glossary for CD antigens for one of our customers: CD_antigens.xglo. This single glossary already contains 456 entries. So even at the lazy shift typo level, it makes sense to organize lazy_shift_typos.xglo in several includes, CD_antigens.xglo being one of them.