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Chris -- 2018-04-11
There are lots of these online. For example:
Ever since I read my first review of the mini back in 1976 I wanted one. Now thirty six years later I finely own one, a NAA-22MC.
gun thread
I finely got a site so you all can see your pictures.
photo site
So I finely got it working
computer thread
I finely picked up a camera so let the lessons begin.
camera thread
These could easily just be misspellings; many (most?) folks pronounce “finely” just like “finally”. I do think there’s conceivably an eggcorn there in spite of the rather tenuous meaning-connection. When people say “I finally” [did this or that], there’s an implication that what they did or found is something greatly to be desired—like a finely wrought treasure. Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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The rebound version is a slippery one:
Every individual contributes their specialist skills and experience, resulting in a finally tuned team who together deliver comparative insight to our partners
They’ve got bullshit sensors probably more finally tuned then ours, so we’re not gonna get away with just throwing something together
Obviously a lot of hits may be people who do want to mean “finally tuned” but I can’t see that is particularly the case in the examples above. Not like:
The primary negative consequence for not tuning a piano for a long period of time will be the need for several pitch-raises when it is finally tuned
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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