Defiantly VS Definitely

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?

I have never ever personally noticed that confusion between those two words. I can defiantly say that.

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?

No I’m going to remain defiant, it’s not a common mistake that I have ever noticed before.

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.

how can I respect someone who can’t spell the queens (Kings) English?

Almost winds me up as much as those who will not use apostrophes correctly… 😂

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

Break pads and brought rather than bought!

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).