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Originally Posted by Iris_Ford

hm, most of my smileys are that way. :X:
Are smilies case insensitive by default and that's why : plane turns into lane ?

They aren't case insensitive, but that one uses a lower case p. I think they don't have colons at the end because they match classic emoticons. It is annoying, but when I see it happen I edit my post and check the "disable smilies in text" box. And if you really want smilies in the post but want to avoid one word from converting, you can use the noparse tags, like [noparse]:p[/noparse]. Yeah, it's a PITA but it works.

ETA: Oh, after Lynne posted below I see now, you meant that it's other smilies starting with : p that is the issue.