You know that experience when you have looked at the same word so many times that it starts to look strange and wrong and mis-spelled to you? In Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, I believe the word "wife" is called out as a familiar word that you suddenly aren't able to spell because you can't remember having seen the letters in that order before. I have had this feeling before looking at the word "who," which is, when you think about it, a kind of odd looking word.
Today I had a sudden inability to figure out what "foreign" was after seeing it several dozen times in a report I myself had written. It looked like a verb mis-typed with -ing becoming -ign and the final "e" of the root word accidentally left on - as though the word should be "foring." (I just googled "foring" and it says "Did you mean to search for foreign?")
There was a funny little moment when I realized that the word "foreign" was looking, well, foreign to me.
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