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Probable, comfortable

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Words · 24/04/2025 11:16

Instead of probably, comfortably, etc. I am noticing this error very frequently at thé moment.

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upinaballoon · 24/04/2025 13:00

Do you hear it as well as see it written? If it's written it could be a typing mistake although e and y are not that close on a keyboard

Words · 24/04/2025 14:24

No written only. I think people see the e on the end and sound it in their head as a y.

A bit like ' I text him yesterday' because thé t sounds vaguely like a d.

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upinaballoon · 24/04/2025 20:29

Words · 24/04/2025 14:24

No written only. I think people see the e on the end and sound it in their head as a y.

A bit like ' I text him yesterday' because thé t sounds vaguely like a d.

I understand what you mean. Comfortabl...e.

Words · 24/04/2025 20:39

Yes exactly

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B0D · 28/04/2025 20:26

used in the way “likely” is ?
e.g. “a probable outcome”. I thought that was correct.
Or do people say “I will probable visit my mum at the weekend “ ?

Words · 29/04/2025 11:02

I will,probable visit my Mum at the weekend.
The first as you say is correct

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Words · 03/05/2025 14:50

I saw unbelievable instead of unbelievably today.

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upinaballoon · 11/05/2025 15:31

I've seen comfortable instead of comfortably today, in an otherwise very good post. Could it be that a kind of predictive text is grabbing it and the poster isn't noticing the ending because she's gone on to the next word?

Words · 11/05/2025 17:00

Unbelievable instead of unbelievably also today.

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