March-31st-2003, 10:55 AM
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Reevaluating @ 500k
Join Date: Mar 2003
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"Definitely" misspelled 10% of the time
Number of results on Google for the keywords definitely and definately:
definitely
(6 800 000 results) versus definately
( 685 000 results)
www.googlefight.com
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March-31st-2003, 11:17 AM
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Location: Switzerland
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Actually, "definitely" is only misspelled 9.1516 %, but adding other variations like "definatily" or "definitaly", it could make the 10 %
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March-31st-2003, 11:42 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Singapore
Posts: 2,902
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So here are some I have. Some are a little tongue in cheek. Yes, they are not as striking; nevertheless:
address: 67 400 000
adress : 219 000
uncertainy: 3 090 000
uncertainity: 10 400
(this isn't that bad)
probably: 25 900 000
prolly: 172 000
(had to do this)
peculiar: 1 470 000
peculier: 20 100
jazz: 12 700 000
jaz: 594 000
(the sorry state of jazz)
wynton marsalis: 64 800
paul dunmall: 3430
(this one's for Steve R.)
Great site, by the way.
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March-31st-2003, 11:57 AM
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The mouldiest of all figs
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Tustin, CA
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How about nu-cu-lar?
That's more in the saying then spelling, I guess.
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March-31st-2003, 12:37 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Santa Monica, CA
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Must say that one of my pet peeves is the misuse of "your" and "you're"; also, "its" and "it's".
I'll bet the above are misused about 80% of the time on this site!
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March-31st-2003, 12:38 PM
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2007 Stanley Cup Champs
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Oh, that this to too two solid flesh should melt.
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March-31st-2003, 12:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by clinthopson
That's more in the saying then spelling, I guess.
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And, Clint, you've just reminded me of the misuse of "then" and "than"!! LOL!!
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March-31st-2003, 01:16 PM
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Registered Loser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: The Altered State Of Drugafornia
Posts: 7,663
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So, what would it take for 'definately' to be accepted as a variant of 'definitely' by the dictionary people?
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March-31st-2003, 03:40 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Metro NYC
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A lot of words are more frequently mispronounced than misspelled such as FebRuary, or goverNment
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March-31st-2003, 04:12 PM
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Happy 50th, Alaska!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Posts: 16,985
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I never cease to be amazed at how many politicians and news reporters say Washen DC. Sheer laziness.
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March-31st-2003, 09:06 PM
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holier than thou
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 8,708
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When I was a kid in North Carolina, there were lots of other kids who pronounced "spaghetti" as "psghetti". Kinda' like verbal dyslexia or something.
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March-31st-2003, 09:19 PM
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Reevaluating @ 500k
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Here
Posts: 31,322
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A subway series of sorts:
Number of results on Google for the keywords sodom and gomorrah:
sodom
( 353 000 results) versus gomorrah
( 99 900 results)
The winner is: sodom
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April-1st-2003, 05:28 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Valerie
Must say that one of my pet peeves is the misuse of "your" and "you're"; also, "its" and "it's".
I'll bet the above are misused about 80% of the time on this site!
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Valerie dear, you have embarrassed your old dad, here.
I had totally forgotten that possessives of personal pronouns do *not* get an apostrophe. Hence I'm sure I and others have been guilty of incorrect possessives, eg your's, their's .
PEDANT!!!
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April-1st-2003, 05:34 AM
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hocus pocus rationalizer
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: une estafette
Posts: 2,537
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Jazz corner 308 000, blue note 307 000.
Steven Reynolds ( 326 000 results) versus Wynton Marsalis ( 64 800 results)
Last edited by Douglas; April-1st-2003 at 07:01 AM.
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