I am the poster who wrote rest-bite AMA

[MummaMummaJumma]

Thank you to the lovely poster who started a thread attempting to further embarrass me. Sadly, it was deleted. So here I am.. AMA!

My favourite one is Mangetout pronounced Man Get Out, slightly off topic but it made me howl 😂

And crips.

Don't worry about. There are some condescending bitches on here

I am quite fond of ´for all intensive purposes’. Makes perfect sense. I’m not sure how many times I wrote it in essays before my A level English teacher corrected me.

My grandma used to insist the only place to buy proper undergarments was in the ‘lingery’ dept of our local dept store.

I work in a role where we often arrange and work with respite for our client group

I cannot tell you how many professionals say and write rest bite, even on client records. Incredible.

A lot of these mishearings are 'eggcorns' arent they?

Its a well known phenomenon

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Love that!!!

People have been writing rest-bite on here for years.

i loved it the first time I saw it. It's cute and it actually says what it is, a bite of rest, far better than Re spite.

i also think that the people that need it can be forgiven for spelling however the fuck they do.

I didn't see the thread. But don't let that twat upset you. 🌷

I 100% thought it was rest bite until now! Who knew!? Well lots of people apparently! My question for AMA is now should it be Chester draws or chest of draws?🤔

Drawers

I like the idea of a rest-bite. I'll take a foot rub and a packet of crisps for mine. Seabrooks beefy.

It’s not a bad error to have made. If you’ve not seen “respite” written down, rest-bite is a more logical spelling. It incorporates the word “rest” in full, which is the whole point of a period of respite and also makes it seem like you might get a bite to eat during this rest.

OP, you are hilarious and a good sport. Fair play to you.

For all intensive purpose maybe you need some rest-bite from this site? I've been wandering if it's maybe time to upcycle that Chester draws you'd meaning to do? Or perhaps go for a drive but be sure to check your review mirror. Pls delete if not aloud. :)

I remember the girl who broke the Internet by referring to the then US president as Baraco Barner 🤣🤣

Oh I love her 🤣🤣

My sister (40s, degree, nice flat overlooking fancy park) thought it was rest-bite until very recently too.

I’ve heard of this before ‘to get darked’, what does that mean?

Yes, cake for all!

How do you plan to atone for your egregious mistake?

I could do plenty. Possibly put out a public apology to all those offended, or hand myself in to my local police station for questioning.

I think my best plan though is to have a laugh about it and move on 😜

Or arguably "rest-bite" is an Eggcorn.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

i think everyone makes mistakes sometimes. To be honest though the one which always surprises me is people who don’t know drawers are drawers and call them draws. And that’s as I can’t fathom how they haven’t seen it written down, even on a tv advert for bedroom furniture etc. It’s such a common word. I out the knife back in the kitchen drawer. Not the draw.

I can see how someone maybe hadn’t seen respite, but to not know a drawer is called a drawer and not a draw, always catches my attention, although I don’t write a correction, just spell it correctly and hope the op notices.

😁

I’ve heard of this before ‘to get darked’, what does that mean?

It's a Mumsnetism for leaving your washing out in the line after dark, which some people freak out about. There's a related worry about spider willies (or something like that). I'm too much of a slattern to understand what the fuss is all about.