MUST-READ: Psychology Today: Slips of the Tongue

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24. Good description. I sometimes do that kind of thing while typing, and I call it "auto-typing" -- I

start typing a word and after a few letters find myself automatically finishing a different word beginning with the same letters, usually one that I type more often.

And there have been times I've been talking to someone while typing, and I find myself typing in a word or two from the conversation.

The more you're trying to do, the more you're thinking about, the more likely you are to make this kind of mistake.