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This happens to me when programming. A common term like "array" will jump out at me and I'll think "...that doesn't look right"

I saw a term for it many years ago and have googled for it many times since then. Thanks to annowiki for posting this!

Enough people have expressed difficulty googling for it so I thought I'd share my google search to find it:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=word+do...

Sometimes the simplest search is the most effective!

And you're welcome. (I was taking a complicated job application test where you had to recognize the color of a word and click the word that spelled the color. Everything was red or blue. As you can imagine...)

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