It's de finite ly. Please try to learn it

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Definitely is definitely the most common spelling mistake on MN.

My teacher at school many years ago taught us it is de FINITE ly.

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No drives me mad as well. Along with should of instead of should have. I'm going to stop now before I go into a rage.

I am probably guilty of this, my fingers type "definately" automatically, even though my brain knows it's an I not an A. I try to correct it if I notice, I promise.

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I had trouble with this spelling for years (and I am a pretty good speller!) till my Dsis helpfully told me about FINITE

Yeh defanitely a good iydeeur

YANBU, it is a genuinely difficult one, as the pronunciation could suggest otherwise.

I have a dyslexic friend who always writes 'defiantly' instead, as in 'I am defiantly interested in doing that', which makes me giggle (in a sympathetic but it's still funny way. I know he really cannot spell).

YANBU. But I'm another who's fingers type definately. It was only when I got Chrome (and it's spell checker) that I realised what I was doing!

Discusted is another one.

I'll deffo try and spell it correctly in future.

Try telling sodding auto correct that as lottie says we dyslexic people put an a where there should be an e because it suggests all sorts of malapropisms, but definitely is often not one of them.

Startail I too am dyslexic, probably why I love all the old school rules for spelling.

I disagree

I think the most common mistake on MN is 'Advice/Advise'.

That's a tricky tricky work that one, especially if you are dyslexic...confused the life out of me for years, I even used to argue with people I was correct, spell check told me different.

word not a work... Jesus Christ anyway bit picky is it not?

I say lots of silly things like

brian instead of brain
diary instead of dairy

I'm okay with advise/advice as they are different, hmm yes my head is messy!

discusted - arghhhh. I was browsing NM yesterday - almost started a thread here actually but knew it wasn't The Right Thing To Do, and 'discusted' came on soooo many times. Also 'your', Gah.

I thought it was loose/lose, Worra.

I cba to point it out if people get stuff wrong though, life's too short. My spelling and grammar isn't perfect either.

I always think of nits, not nats.

As in defi-nit-ely.

I break my words down:

be-a-utiful

I can cope with 'definitely' but cannot bear 'should of' FFS it's 'should have'

For some reason I have always remembered the correct spelling of definitely by saying (in my head!) "Defin-ite-ly, shite-ly!"

I have a dyslexic friend who always writes 'defiantly' instead, as in 'I am defiantly interested in doing that'

I got a text last week asking if dd 'defiantely' wants an ipad (on hire scheme thingy). Whichever word it was supposed to be it was spelt incorrectly, although I amused myself with thoughts of her signing up for an ipad against our wishes . Was also a bit as text was from her school.

sort of unreasonable. I get confused.

although 'GAWJUSS' fucks me off!!

what the hell is wrong with gorgeous

Yanbu.
It's also very annoying when people (in general, not necessarily on mn) don't seem to know the difference between:
They're, There and Their
Your and You're
Grrr, it's not that hard!!

Definitely was in something I wrote that was to be pubished in a book. they typed it up as defiantly. I wasn't impressed .