Can you all stop using 'infer' wrongly please?

[SouthWestmom]

It is making my teeth itch.

[dementedpixie]

I think I infer what you mean

[SouthWestmom]

Thank you! Good example!

[sparechange]

I feel ya, OP
It is my second biggest bugbear, after invite/invitation...

[SouthWestmom]

Argh, invite sounds deliberately 'cool'.
When I read it, it makes me lose interest in the rest of the post as I'm trying to stop myself correcting the poster. It makes me ungenerously want to tell them to stop using words they don't understand.

[tethersend]

Even the Simpsons got this one right:

Homer: What are you inferring?

Lisa: I'm not inferring anything. I imply, you infer.

Homer: Well that's a relief.

[SouthWestmom]