to grind my teeth over 'on my behalf' meaning 'on my part'?

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This is everywhere suddenly and it makes my teeth clench involuntarily.

I just can't reconstruct how the two things came/come to be confused. It sounds like wilful stupidity to my early morning ears.

Can someone please explain where this sprang from? I need to develop some empathy fast.

Just me then?

I don't understand

Example please!

Can't say that I've noticed this, and I'm very down on such things (the BBC and their clear campaign to have 'upcoming' supplant the correct English word 'forthcoming', for example). I suppose it involves the same sort of people who I presume call the largest ocean in the world the 'specific' ocean, given that they refer to things 'pacifically'.

Ok, examples;

"I think it was a misunderstanding on my behalf. I'll put that right straight away."

Or

"It wasn't because of laziness on my behalf, I just didn't think the suggested activity was worthwhile."

UncleT I'll come and hide out wherever you are. I feel surrounded by it.

It can't really be due just to the common 'aah' sound in the middle, can it?

Hmmm.

I've not really noticed it, but I agree it makes no sense!

Using "on my behalf" in those sentences is like saying someone else misunderstood or was lazy, for you.

(I think )

Exactly that. Very distracting it is too.

I can't be the only one who has noticed this? It's endemic.

I asked a colleague who it was who had been so lax in his name... I wasn't being narky, I just wanted to find the person who had the info I needed. I had to report back to our line manager, so I did. I explained that colleague had had someone else do the work on his behalf and that person had let him down...

It took him ages to work out where I had got that from and that I really was working on information he had supplied - 'Sorry, Nomama, that job was undertaken late on my behalf.'

So no, YANBU.

Actually Arsenic, I have decided that YABU.

Had you not put this into my head I would have carried on in blissful ignorance, but now I am going to hear and notice this everywhere.

Shame on you!

Bonkers state of affairs when accepting what someone says means you run the risk of being thought narky

At least you are now aware of the usage.

Ah come on Scarlett, why should I suffer alone?

i haven't heard that. I thought you were going to say that saying (eg) don't go to all that trouble on my behalf' was wrong.