Defiantly VS Definitely

Shouldn’t Shatn’er have; an apostrophe? Feel’s like it should.
Ooh, ooh, what about complement and compliment. Is it complimentary or complementary……?

Is it complimentary or complementary……?

Depends, dunnit.

Does anyone who can’t spell for shit (and isn’t just dyslexic) ever use words like “yore”?

Yore I don’t use but I do use obscure words just for fun and there are words I just cannot spell – sometimes I even cannot get close enough for spellcheck to give me the right spelling  Had it earlier today with conscience ( that time I close enough for spellchecker to get it!)

One that happens on here a lot (I’ve seen two today) is discrete when the writer means discreet. Painful.

I’ll hold my hand up there, discrete / discreet always legs me up. I have to look it up every time.

Quite a few folks confuse I. I mean confuse me. I mean confuse “me” and “I” when it’s “me and” or “I and”. As in: “that was my wife and I in the restaurant”. Ouch.

Yeah. The rule of thumb there is to drop the “and” bit and see if it still scans. “Me and Dave went to the pub” seems to sound OK, but “me went to the pub” sounds like you’re a caveman.

It’s still better than hypercorrecting with “myself” though.

Some of the malapropisms in this thread are truly bazaar.

f you spell definitely ‘Definately’ then if you have autocorrect its 50/50 whether it goes definitely or defiantly.

Not if you have removed defiantly from your spell check dictionary…!

I know a teacher who puts up regular posts on FB about going out going our for a lovely peddle on the bike.

Some of the malapropisms in this thread are truly bazaar.

What you did there.

I see it.

😁

A large house builder, I think it was Persimmon, once had an absolutely HUGE billboard up by one of their emerging developments advertising “A brand new development of Prestigous Homes”. It was by one of the busiest roads out of a crap town (Aylesbury) for years. How nobody noticed the crap spelling is completely beyond me.

Don’t forgot, most of the opinions stated in this thread can be massively improved by starting each one with “me personally.”

Example

I’ll hold my hand up there, discrete / discreet always legs me up. I have to look it up every time.

Me, personally, I’ll hold my hand up there, discrete / discreet always legs me up. I have to look it up every time.

At the end of the day, at his moment in time, me personally I think that reads much better.

I for one will make a conscious effort to forget that one.

I for one enjoy Roman Numerals.

I for one enjoy Roman Numerals.

Bravo! 👏

going our for a lovely peddle on the bike.

I know a marketing manager for a bicycle company that posted on social media about going for a peddle.

Seems legit, Marketing’s entire raison d’etre is to peddle things.

Quite a few folks confuse I. I mean confuse me. I mean confuse “me” and “I” when it’s “me and” or “I and”. As in: “that was my wife and I in the restaurant”. Ouch.

The worst serial offender for this is that Kirsty (bloody) Allsopp on TV; she’s forever at things like “Would you like Phil and I to do A, B or C” or “Phil and me will just go and do X”
I hasten to add that the programmes are favourites of Mrs Lawman, not my choice. But every time I hear her say stuff like that, I want to kick the screen in.

This morning on the World Service Business Report i listened to an interview with a Lithuanian microbrewer who kept referring to the “increasement” of costs to his business due to inflation. It was **** brilliant.

I know a teacher who puts up regular posts on FB about going out going our for a lovely peddle on the bike.

Oh sweet baby cheeses, teachers! I’ve been restraining myself for several years from writing to my kids’ teachers to protest at their use of incorrect spelling and grammar, because I don’t want them to be impacted by the behaviour of their pedantic father… but it’s really hard not to snap. A recent example: One of my boys was doing a project on ‘mold.’ It was spelt that way everywhere throughout the project and asessment.