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Off-topic but I'm curious, so please bear with me: did you dictate this message or type it? As an ESL speaker, I'm always super surprised as to what native speakers might mis-type phonetically (in ways that would never occur to non-natives), like "wants" for "once".

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As a native English speaker, I am actually shocked that I didn’t notice the wants/once discrepancy until you mentioned it. My brain must have either autocorrected or it was in ‘phonetic mode?’ when I read it.

Me too. I'm usually pretty good at proof reading but my mind skipped that one entirely!

Dictated it. I really should proofread more often but it fails just enough to make that not worth my while.

I am sorry - - I will try to proofread more often. English is hard enough without having to go through homonym-like substitutions to figure out what we mean!

As a non native speaker I make these errors in my own as speech to text machine which is my brain and body. I'd sometimes write the wrong word that's phonetically ~~different~~ the same while typing, if I'm tired or in a hurry.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean here.

You write the wrong word, which is phonetically different (so a completely different word), but you write it "the same" (so you write the right word)?

This just happened, while discussing my rank in a video game:

"i hit be for the first time last week, but im a mid C at best"

"be" should be "B" in this case.

(the "different" in my previous post was "strike through" in markdown with the ~~'s. That didnt come across)

Oh OK. I'd only seen native speakers make those kinds of substitutions before. TIL

not OP but as a native, that's a speech-to-text error 100%

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