{"id":7513,"date":"2012-05-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/05\/29\/hazards-of-spelling-autocorrection-defiance\/"},"modified":"2012-05-29T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T07:00:00","slug":"hazards-of-spelling-autocorrection-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120529-00\/?p=7513","title":{"rendered":"Hazards of spelling autocorrection: defiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an internal mailing list, a colleague asked for some recommendations on a webcam.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> I was wondering if there are any models I should avoid or defiantly get. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I got this mental image of my colleague giving the salesperson the finger as he handed over his credit card.\n My colleague explained, &#8220;That&#8217;s an error I frequently make because Outlook by default autocorrects &#8216;definatly&#8217; to &#8216;defiantly&#8217; instead of &#8216;definitely&#8217;. You should see the reaction from my manager when he asks me to do something and I write back, &#8216;I&#8217;ll defiantly do that.&#8217; I&#8217;m a terrible speller. That&#8217;s why I went into math: Only single letters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> But the kicker was the end of his original message. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> We&#8217;ll be using Windows Live Massager. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an internal mailing list, a colleague asked for some recommendations on a webcam. I was wondering if there are any models I should avoid or defiantly get. I got this mental image of my colleague giving the salesperson the finger as he handed over his credit card. My colleague explained, &#8220;That&#8217;s an error I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-7513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>On an internal mailing list, a colleague asked for some recommendations on a webcam. I was wondering if there are any models I should avoid or defiantly get. I got this mental image of my colleague giving the salesperson the finger as he handed over his credit card. My colleague explained, &#8220;That&#8217;s an error I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}