Talk:certainity

Indian prevalence

From my personal experience this seems to be most common among the people of India. I have even heard it pronounced this way by a news anchor on a major Indian news bulletin just a coupe of days ago. On this basis I've added the label "India". As you know, putting such a label marks the predominant place(s) the word is used, by no means excluding the possibility that a smattering of other occurrences may occur around the world. The major difference, to my mind, is that the Indian usage is intentional & confident, whereas elsewhere this spelling/pronunciation is likely to be unintentional or lacking confidence (i.e. used by someone who realises that they're not really sure of the correct spelling/pronunciation).

I speculate that this misspelling might be arising through analogy to pairs like vain/vanity and sane/sanity (focussing on the sound) to yield uncertanity/uncertainity. But I'd be interested to know of any better theories.

—DIV (1.145.99.63 03:38, 19 March 2023 (UTC))

Nice observation, I didn't think it would be more Indian English specific. On checking G.Books, it is true that most uses of this word are in fact by Indian authors! Svartava (talk) 14:20, 8 May 2024 (UTC)