Bare with your nstead of bear .. aghhh

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This seems to be popping up everywhere. At first it was funny as it's suggesting nakedness. But now it's aggravating! It's so common now. Why?
Feel it's particularly bad at work. Please bare with me on this.

I have to admit, I always have issues with bear/bare with me. I google it every time 😂

Peak/Peek/Pique is the one that always gets me.

Your interest has been piqued, not peaked or peeked!

Also, weighted instead of weighed? "I weighted it and it was a kilo" no, you weighed it!

Bias, as in “She is bias”. No, the word you’re after is “biased”.

Not read the full thread.
Heals as in 'wearing heals with a dress'
'Bare with me...' is like saying 'Let's get undressed...'

Only about the school…
It may be a dialect word in more than one place I guess. I’ve only come across it once. My name will let you know if it’s the same/similar place!

If I've picked up on your clue correctly, we are in different Celtic countries lol.

That’s interesting if so @JL690
Wonder if there’s a Brythonic link there…

@Stephisaur peek/peak/pique is much more complex than bare/bear! Am so surprised. Mind you my downfall was aswell. I have done that a few times!! Some apostrophes are a bit wayward too.

I had to google that lol. I'm in Scotland and Brythonic seems to be more southern.

Yes, I thought that after I’d typed it. There’s no linguistic shared heritage between Scots Gaelic and Welsh I don’t think.

@cardibach , there is, they're both Celtic. Gaelic is Goidelic, Welsh Brythonic.

I hate all of these. If I made errors like these, my mother would come back and haunt me. She taught English as a foreign language and was Dutch, as am I. If I can get the basics of grammar and spelling right, why can't native speakers? Sorry, but you don't all have dyslexia.

I'm just glad my kids (early twenties) care enough to get it right even though they are members of the Snapchat generation.

@pointythings , did you learn English formally by having lessons?

I meant no direct link - different branches.

That's right. Sort of cousins not siblings.

I need to get all this out..

Aloud - allowed.
Spelt - spelled.
Smelt - smelled.

I carnt - I can't.
I aren't - I am not.

And one that's really bugging me lately is are/our!
"That's ares"
"Are house is big"
It's our! Our, our, OUR!!!!

Ahhh, that's better..for now.

Oh, and queue, cue and que!

At uni this girl got voted common room president and was insufferable smug and bossy in the role.

Her first all-student email said something like "Litter in the common room is becoming a problem. If the amount of litter doesn't reduce, we will have to lock everyone out of the room. We have a president for this"

We all genuinely had to read it several times because it sounded like she thought her reason-for-being was litter, which was unusually humble of her. She meant precedent. Teehee

It's always bear, unless you're talking about nakedness.

This

@somethingisnotquiteright Spelt/spelled etc are both correct. Spelt is just more common in UK English.

The misuse of your and you're.
Drives me potty.

I hate every single one of these. I'm convinced the people who do it just don't and never have read enough actual books or newspapers, they just read other people's posts on social media, perpetuating all the grammatical and spelling errors. They also don't care if they come across as stupid.
I'll add to the list "his" instead of "he's", eg " his late because his caught in the traffic". Appalling.

Years of googling and never such a succinct answer! 😂

Thank you!

@PedantScorner I learned English by immersion, which is the easy way to do it - when I was 10, my dad was offered a secondment to the University of York, so my mum took a sabbatical year from her job as a teacher (she was in training other teachers of English at that point) and we all headed off to live in a crumbling stately home in Humberside. My Dsis and I were fluent by Christmas. I have a language brain anyway - I'm also fluent in German and French, and I didn't learn those through immersion. Language teaching is very good in the Netherlands.

I've lived in the UK for the last 26 years so my Dutch is a little rusty now, but it comes back fairly quickly when I need to go back for any reason.

@pointythings , that's interesting, but your linguistic mind and your mother probably made a difference.

I think that generally those who were taught English as a second language often have much better spelling and grammar than those who acquired it. We are all taught English at school but I'm not sure it is taught all that well. It was pretty poor when I was at school, but I have a fairly linguistic mind and learnt other languages. A friend from a mainland European country studied an English-related subject at a UK university said that the British students seemed to not know much.

When the spoken English that a child hears isn't good, bad habits form.
There isn't really any acceptable excuse for things like 'could of'. Nobody would say or write 'I/you/they of', would they?

I have a friend whose English has all been acquired, and the mistakes are amusing and don't really matter.

IME, dyslexia is often used as an excuse for poor spelling when the person isn't dyslexic.