Definatly
If I see one more person use “definatly” instead of definitely, I’m going to go crazy… it seems like I see it spelled as definatly even more than the correct spelling! Maybe only the people/write who say the word aren’t intelligible enough to spell it correctly.
Does definitely sound like “definatly”? Not even close. Where did this dumb misspelling come from, anyway?
Markus Said,
November 1, 2005 @ 7:49 am
Well, depending on dialect and when spoken quickly the pronuncations are the same.
But it irks me, too. According to google (that’s how I found your rant) the good guys still win by a factor of about 10 (definately about 8 million, definatly 2+ million, definitely 100 million), but the “A”-bunch is gaining.