{"id":652275,"date":"2010-02-02T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2010-02-02T07:42:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:42:20","slug":"an-anticupertino-incorrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652275","title":{"rendered":"An anticupertino incorrection?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Definitely’ is always spelled with an ‘a’ —’definitely’. I don’t know why,” says Paul Budra, an English professor and associate dean of arts and science at Simon Fraser.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So reports CNews in Canada here<\/A>.<\/p>\n

But I think what they meant was that Professor Budra (who is talking about the disastrous state of the spelling and grammar skills of students in Canada’s universities today) said (or rather, emailed) ‘Definitely’ is always spelled with an ‘a’ —’definately’<\/I>. The in-house automatic spelling checks, I conjecture, flagged definately<\/I> as an error (which it is: undergraduates take note), and they incorrectly corrected it to the correct spelling, which here was incorrect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Definitely’ is always spelled with an ‘a’ —’definitely’. I don’t know why,” says Paul Budra, an English professor and associate dean of arts and science at Simon Fraser. So reports CNews in Canada here. But I think what they meant was that Professor Budra (who is talking about the disastrous state of the spelling and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JGz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}