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He went home , but he forgot his phone .He returned to get it .
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These are some examples, which nowadays get autocorrected by word automatically, but I used to see them a lot. Sadly (or thankfully) Stackexchange also autocorrects multiple consecutive spaces, so I could not show those in the example.
a mistake in printing, typesetting, or typing, especially one caused by striking an incorrect key on a keyboard.
Page 34: The typographical error "w ash" was changed to "wash."
[American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition and Dictionary.com]
