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It's weird. My niece was saying that, too. She's a well-educated woman in her mid thirties. The misspoken phrase only seems to have appeared a few years ago, yet it's caught on enough that it's used fairly frequently.
(I see this mistake a lot -- is it one of those auto-correct mistakes (e.g. when typing on a phone)? )
Folks mistaking "defiantly" for "definitely" does seem to be a growing trend, unfortunately.
I don't know whether this is the result of auto-correct on a cell phone, but do know that some smartphones (Apple and possibly other brands) decide what you want to type, and this can lead to some very embarrassing messages.
I am VERY glad that my smartphone is not smart enough to choose my words for me. It does give me several suggested word options (in a separate window) from which I can select, but I can also ignore those suggestions if I choose to, and I wish that all smartphones were like this.
Edited to add:
If you want to read some really hilarious auto-correct mistakes, here is a link, but if you are offended by sexual references and/or obscenities, I urge you NOT to click on it:
With CNN, that is a given!
In the event that they do spell your name correctly, one of their news readers will slaughter the pronunciation of it.
Of course they will.
This was just on my mind, and even though it's not exactly "writing", you opened the door for me to go slightly off-topic here.
I was just driving home and was listening to the radio station 1010 WINS, an all-news station in the NYC metro area. I keep hearing two things on that station that bug me (probably because I hear these same announcers at the same time of day when I drive!)
One is the guy who keeps talking about what the mare did. You know, the mare of New York. It used to be Mare Bloomberg, but now it's Mare DiBlasio.
The other is the woman who talks about the weather and what the middierologists said.
Folks mistaking "defiantly" for "definitely" does seem to be a growing trend, unfortunately.
I don't know whether this is the result of auto-correct on a cell phone, but do know that some smartphones (Apple and possibly other brands) decide what you want to type, and this can lead to some very embarrassing messages.
I am VERY glad that my smartphone is not smart enough to choose my words for me. It does give me several suggested word options (in a separate window) from which I can select, but I can also ignore those suggestions if I choose to, and I wish that all smartphones were like this.
Edited to add:
If you want to read some really hilarious auto-correct mistakes, here is a link, but if you are offended by sexual references and/or obscenities, I urge you NOT to click on it:
I have a friend who works for the DOJ in DC. The offices closed a lot this winter because of the number of snowstorms they had. Last month when we were both getting hit with one of the storms she texted me to say that the goat was closed. Apparently her auto-correct saw "gov't" and decided it should be "goat".
I detest autocorrect. I was trying to write, "Volkswagen Corrado" in a text message and it kept changing to, "Version Corridor." I would change it and it would change back. I take it so personally. I know what I want to write, you dang artificial intelligence sumnabitz!
Just a few minutes ago, I saw a post on facebook. It stated that the person posting was sick of all the "dribble" on facebook. I dramatically trilled, "Irooooooooonyyyyyyyyy!" very loudly to my empty house.
I detest autocorrect. I was trying to write, "Volkswagen Corrado" in a text message and it kept changing to, "Version Corridor." I would change it and it would change back. I take it so personally. I know what I want to write, you dang artificial intelligence sumnabitz!
Just a few minutes ago, I saw a post on facebook. It stated that the person posting was sick of all the "dribble" on facebook. I dramatically trilled, "Irooooooooonyyyyyyyyy!" very loudly to my empty house.
I have a bad habit of saying a nasty word when I am annoyed. It starts with a C and ends with an R and has three syllables and includes some good strong "k" sounds in the middle that I somehow find satisfying to say. When I am on the commuter train and the auto-correct on my phone keeps correcting to something I don't want it to be, I sometimes blurt out that word. I tell myself that no one near me heard it. They pretend they didn't hear it, anyway.
I decided that I will claim that I have Tourette's Syndrome if I'm ever confronted.
Or "turrets", as someone once posted on City-Data.
I have a bad habit of saying a nasty word when I am annoyed. It starts with a C and ends with an R and has three syllables and includes some good strong "k" sounds in the middle that I somehow find satisfying to say. When I am on the commuter train and the auto-correct on my phone keeps correcting to something I don't want it to be, I sometimes blurt out that word. I tell myself that no one near me heard it. They pretend they didn't hear it, anyway.
I decided that I will claim that I have Tourette's Syndrome if I'm ever confronted.
Or "turrets", as someone once posted on City-Data.
Sometimes swearing is the only release that keeps a brain from complete meltdown. Having grown up in Wisconsin, I tend to swear a little like Ned Flanders from The Simpsons sometimes. It's embarrassing when I mean to sound all badass and, "Goldarn it, gosh diddly doo, anyhoo, fer cornsakes!" comes out.
You have "Turrets" and you live way up high, in the little tower of a castle, and you can swear loudly down into the valley. It echoes for all the townspeople to hear.
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Having grown up in Wisconsin, I tend to swear a little like Ned Flanders from The Simpsons sometimes. It's embarrassing when I mean to sound all badass and, "Goldarn it, gosh diddly doo, anyhoo, fer cornsakes!" comes out. 
