Definately an invasion

[Muttley]

The forum is definately being taken over by the word definately. If you do a search of the word definately you'll find at least 46 of them, probably more now that I've written this message. At first they were sporadic, but now they are arriving at a rate of about one per day. And it's not just a single offender, looks like everybody's at it. The search software fails to throw up a single appearance of the word definIT*ly, even though I know there's at least one in there somewhere. I tell you, it's a conspiracy to corrupt the local spelling, probably perpetrated by posh schools in SE21 to make sure they retain their 'competative' advantage in the league tables. Fortunately, the adjective definite is still safe - there are nine of them in past threads, and only one definate.

Sigh, there goes the 'neighborhood'.

[SimonM]

>>> their 'competative'<<<

Ummm....? :))

[Asset]

I think Muttley is referring to the misspelling of the word definitely SimonM and hence the misspelling of competetive

[Asset]

oops - spelt it wrong myself - competitive. Thought it looked wrong

[Muttley]

;-)

[mockney piers]

firefox has an auto spellchecker that does the wobbly underline thing with right-click suggestions for the correct spelling. It can be a bit annoying and microsfoty, but does help prevent things like definately.

[TillieTrotter]

Thats definately worth a try Mockers!! How was the wedding and Umbria? Am I in the lounge?

[mockney piers]

Looks like you might be Tillie.

Wedding Umbria and Tuscany (Mrs mockers and I went out a few days beforehand) were quite simply stunning.

Wedding went swimmingly, my speech/comp?ring efforts weren't too disastrous, and all had a jolly good time.

Plus Huguenot and I stumbled upon this rundown little gem near the venue, so who knows, perhaps with a bit of luck we'll be joining you for a drop of montepulciano in years to come.

 

[Michael Palaeologus]

If we all chipped in it could become the ED Forum holiday home! Hmmm ........

[TillieTrotter]

Bravo Signor, I'll introduce you to more of the area. Did you get up to Cortona at all?