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Honestly does it frustrate anyone else? How can this be misspelt so many times?
Now it’s not as important as the melting icecaps but wow it annoys me……
I also saw at an IT convention the other day where companies flex their best people usually, the word Excellenece ?
What? On a board where thousands of people will see and can’t even spell Excellence?
This was a sub £100 million turnover business too.
It’s hugely concerning that these sort of errors get proof read, or I think that’s the issue. Everyone’s rushing so much these days that simple details get missed!
Am I the minority here?
Oh don’t, please change it otherwise I’ll start twitching. There are spelling mistakes which are forgivable on a document if it’s audience isn’t far reaching but when Definitely is religiously spelt wrongly and it’s not even noticed. I cry inside.
Trust me I do have bigger things to worry about like a 7 month old baby. But it absolutely winds me up.
We have a new leader at work, he does it. However he also has many other brilliant qualities…… how can I respect someone who can’t spell the queens (Kings) English?
Am I the minority here?
Defiantly so.
Its misuse, of commas, that irritates me, though.
"Excellenece" is unforgivable because it's not a word. Spellcheck has been a thing for at least as long as I can remember within Office apps.
Its misuse, of commas, that irritates me, though.
Are you William Shatner?
Ppl are Tuesdays.
It defiantly makes me loose my mind but not as much as the lose regard people have for being Pacific about what they mean.
I should have p written something like that, but I'm so cut I can't.
Your write it happens alot im not aloud too mention it any moar
This was a sub £100 million turnover business too.
If we are picking holes....I'm assuming this was such a heinous crime as the business was greater than £100M turnover.
Almost as bad as people who capitalise each letter in versus 🙂
Are we ready… for the most unforgivable error which everyone will have seen…
if it’s audience isn’t far reaching
Its audience.
Its misuse, of commas, that irritates me, though.
It's misuse.
I think this is a spell checker problem, I have noticed a few times that I have misspelled words like "definitely" and the suggested word isn't the correct one, sometimes when rushing it is possible to just click on the correction without noticing, especially for the dyslexic.
I always spell definitely wrong but never as defiantly, usually definatley or something. So maybe spell checker is auto correcting for defiantly. Still should be picked up when checking though.
My biggest gripe is a colleague who consistently uses the word cautious instead of conscious.
“I’m cautious that I might not meet the deadline”.
🫣
This pales in comparison to the most heinous of word based criminality. I present to you:
Myself and Bob will do this.
Please get in touch with myself
And
I could care less.
It’s me or I you utter bastards! Stop using myself where it doesn’t belong. I’d like to say I couldn’t care less but for some reason both these things annoy me.
Oh that’s another one that boils my piss too, literally the words they are using don’t make sense.
I’d reply saying i’m glad you could care less as just goes to show what a conscious individual you are and it’s good to know you really do care, let them figure out that one for a good ten minutes. 😂
My muscle memory while typing prevents me from spelling teh correctly.
Thier gets used on here quite a few times, i before e except after c
Shouldn't bring it up as folk may be dyslexic but we got the ruler or lots of red pen kisses from the old dragon primary teacher
Make Britain great again.
Stop selling cheese that has already been greated.
Shirley this should be discussed out on the trials ?
It's defiantly of the times, definitively!
To be fair it does say 'cyber excellenece' not 'spelling exellenece'.
At great expense our website was rewritten and went live earlier this month. Every new booking/enquiry online has the question "How did you here of us" on it.
Truly exellenece at work and worrying as to the mistakes present in the code due to speeling mistooks!
This thred is making my teath itch!
I sometimes make the defiantly mistake but i think it's a combination of fast typing, spell checkers and the way we speed read everything nowadays. I type quickly and if my left and right hands are out of sync then middle letters sometimes get switched. If the spell check then 'fixes' it I won't spot it. Either that or my brain is not working but it's a mistake i make from time to time and I absolutely know the correct word to use so it's weird
Senior manager at my last place sent email regarding the daylight saving time change event, subject line - ‘cock change weekend’
If only email recall erased people’s minds too…
Specific being pronounced pacific is the one that gets me.
The excellenece thing doesn't look very proffesional. Its not a mistake myself can except.
Not sure if your last sentence really was a mistake there Rich.
Think about it.
proffesional
Ive pacifically mentiond this befor, its professnial.
People who cannot distinguish between etymology and entomology bug me in ways that I cannot put into words.
Also see draw instead of drawer and shirely instead of surely (which I am never sure people do deliberately or not).
Definitely is a word I never get wrong! This is because I was scarred for life by the word when I was 13 - I did a reading test and it was the only word I didn't know - I actually remember to this day pronouncing it "Defiantly" in the test and it knocked my reading age from 17 to 16. Gutted I was. So I defiantly never gotted it wrong since.
Generally instead of genuinely is one that does my head in.
I can not spell either word correctly. Andy age 42
A lot of things like this occur due to spell check choosing the wrong one from your initial attempt, now the problem is that if you need the spell check you have might have problems telling the difference or you have so many corrections is easy to miss as you're just pressing correct correct correct and reading at speed easy to miss. In addition when it comes to rereading you end up reading what you want, hence the need for work to be peer reviewed.
The way I remember how to spell definitely is that it contains what it means. It's means without doubt, the last word. In the middle it says fini...
There, their, they're. Aren't they just interchangeable? 😜
Ooh, I'm gonna try and remeber that nickc. I always pronounce it definAtely so always spell it wrong, but yeah it contains the word 'finite' in it. Brilliant!
I have to check what I've spelt as I ALWAYS press ; instead of ' for some reason.....
There's a guy at work who uses conformation instead of confirmation.
The use of addicting puts my teeth on edge, surely it's addictive?
"Could of, should of" etc is my pet hate. It's all over social media now.
Once had a CV from someone applying for a job who listed their skills as being a “diligent prof reader” and having excellent “attention to deal”. Needless to say they weren’t shortlisted.
Former sub-editor here, so constantly triggered by this kind of stuff. Affect/effect and principal/principle get me going.
Obviously my pure hatred is reserved for people who don't know what disinterested actually means. 🙂
Also see draw instead of drawer and shirely instead of surely (which I am never sure people do deliberately or not).
Stop calling me Shirley
Spellcheck has been a thing for at least as long as I can remember within Office apps.
How old are you? I know my early attempts at office most definitely didn't have any sort of spell checker.
Damp squid.
Even after explaining the etymology of the actual phrase one of my grown up daughters still says it, she thought I was making it up.
You say break I say brake.
How can this be misspelt so many times?
If you spell definitely 'Definately' then if you have autocorrect its 50/50 whether it goes definitely or defiantly.
Also see draw instead of drawer and shirely instead of surely
See https://screenrant.com/airplane-best-quotes-ranked-dont-call-shirley/
I know my early attempts at office most definitely didn’t have any sort of spell checker.
It was in word star from about 1982 and word prefect around the same time.
Don't get me wrong you might predate those but it's unlikely you were using a computer day to day unless you worked in a quite specific field in the late 70s.
Damp squid.
Even after explaining the etymology of the actual phrase one of my grown up daughters still says it, she thought I was making it up.
Ask her if she's got that sick squid she owes you.
On a slight tangent, one of the headlines in our local rag this week said "Tonnes of recycling is going to waste"
Err, no... tonnes ISN'T doing anything at all, you buffoon. Tonnes ARE going to waste.
The same grammatical nonsense appeared a couple of times in the accompanying article.
FFS, your sposed to be a professinial journalist, ect, ect
word prefect
*Perfect
'Chomping at the bit' is a slight annoyance to me.
I think this is a spell checker problem
What's interesting with spell checkers is which words are programmed in.
On my phone, I can start typing the word "various". The first option it gives me on auto complete every time is Vario.
In what world am I talking about watch straps or a Mercedes heavy van?! Never! So **** off with that option!
You would not believe how many people that work in the bike world cannot get descent vs decent vs dissent right. Or ride on bridalways. Or are peddling along.
word prefect
*Perfect
Damn you auto correct 😂 (which, FWIW, I think first defaults to on in word 2003)
descent vs decent
One is on single track, one is "gravel" right?
It is a particular joy of the modern age when a ranty gammon on social media uses 'defiantly' when they mean 'definitely'. Since there is no way in hell they're going to back down, it is then very easy to manoeuvre them into arguing defiantly that they are right. I can usually elicit a tirade of badly spelled abuse in less than three replies. Then I just block them anyway - leaving them fuming into empty space.
I mean, keep banging on about British this and English that, but they can't even get their own language right.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ect, ect
Ectetera, ectetera?
Also see draw instead of drawer
This irritates me way more than it should.
and shirely instead of surely (which I am never sure people do deliberately or not).
It is deliberate, and don't call me Shirley. (As someone else pointed out, it's a Leslie Nielsen gag.)
The way I remember how to spell definitely is that it contains what it means.
"Definately" always legs me up. But you'd never misspell "finite."
The use of addicting puts my teeth on edge, surely it’s addictive?
I don't think "addicting" is a word at all. It's either an Americanism or an affectation of non-native speakers.
Affect/effect
I've never had a problem with this until I've seen it wrong so many times that I've started to doubt myself. The Internet has literally made me stupider.
On a slight tangent, one of the headlines in our local rag this week said “Tonnes of recycling is going to waste”
Err, no… tonnes ISN’T doing anything at all, you buffoon. Tonnes ARE going to waste.
I'm not convinced this is right, you know. "Tonnes of recycling" is a singular entity containing many parts. It's like saying "Microsoft are..." vs "Microsoft is..." - it's counterintuitive but the latter is correct.
Also it's already waste, which is why it's suitable for recycling. You don't recycle things which are in use.
Please tell me that was intentional 😂It was in word star from about 1982 and word prefect around the same time.
Yeah even the crappy WP I had with my Amstrad CPC mid-late 80s had a spell checker!!
I work in design/printing and have one customer who always insists on things having a "boarder" 🙄 😂 Always makes me think of pirates capturing a ship 🤣
It was in word star from about 1982 and word prefect around the same time.
Must have been missing in the software we had at uni then (1992) as i had to manually proofread and spell check all my work (Lotus Word Pro IIRC).
It could do word count though, so at least i knew how many more (badly spelt) words i needed to pad the document out by.
Please tell me that was intentional 😂
Regrettably I can't assume perchy's much coveted crown
ect, ect
Ectetera, ectetera?
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Fazackerly!
“Tonnes of recycling” is a singular entity containing many parts"
Hmm, that doesn't convince me the grammar is correct . Consider if it had said "Several tonnes of recycling..." - that's surely a plurality, so IS would defiantly be wrong there. Anyway, apart from my attempt 9 or 10 words ago to drag things back on topic, I recognise I'm being grammar pedant rather than completely-wrong-bloody-word pedant.
Must have been missing in the software we had at uni then (1992) as i had to manually proofread and spell check all my work (Lotus Word Pro IIRC).
I'm surprised by that, I know that by 1997 Word Pro had an as-you-type spellchecker, so it seems odd that didn't have a menu based on only a few years earlier.
Consider if it had said “Several tonnes of recycling…” – that’s surely a plurality, so IS would defiantly be wrong there.
Respectfully disagree. There is only one "several tonnes of recycling," the recycling is a homogenous mass not discrete items. It's perhaps easier to see if you make it the object in a sentence, "in the loading bay there [is|are] several tonnes of recycling."
"Several tonnes of recycling" is no different from "a pile of recycling" and you wouldn't say "a pile of recycling are..." Similarly, you wouldn't say "tonnes of water are..."
There's probably a linguistic term for this. Mass noun? Maybe.
Espresso/Expresso. Really grinds on me. The latter is not even a word FFS.
Or are peddling along.
When not breaking.
Must have been missing in the software we had at uni then (1992) as i had to manually proofread and spell check all my work (Lotus Word Pro IIRC).
I'm not even sure Word Pro was a thing in 92 (still called Ami Pro back then?) But that definitely had a spell-checker so more than likely too many pints of snakebite-and-black at the Students' Union was the factor here 😂I’m surprised by that, I know that by 1997 Word Pro had an as-you-type spellchecker, so it seems odd that didn’t have a menu based on only a few years earlier.
spell checker
We're not at ****ing hogwarts 😜
Gawd it's noun FML 🤯
I'm defiantly dyslexic and have no idea what is going on in this thread.
(I also just had to google how to spell dyslexic :-D)