Bare with me?

[Veterinari]

I know I'll be told that I am. I know I'm being pedantic, and that language evolves and that its only an Internet forum, not a literacy test.
I'm sure there'll be some proper pedants along to point out the eleventy million SPAG errors in my OP.

But in the off chance you're interested and genuinely didn't know, AIBU to point out that the phrase is 'bear with me' as in to bear a heavy load, not 'bare with me' as in let's get naked together.
Very very different connotations.

As you were

Cheque Republic is very shocking.

I was naive about this stuff of course before my DC went to school. I remember when my dear friend, who was a TA, was assisting in a class with a new teacher, and said friend told me she died a little inside when the teacher said, in answer to a request for help with spelling 'pheasant', started with 'F-E-A...'. You get the picture. I was aghast! (Easily shocked, me).

Off of ....... do you mean from?

I have a friend who is a teacher, who regularly and consistently uses the word your in place of you are/you're.
I don't have the heart nor the guts to point it out.

Do tell her!! It's basic.

Ect instead of etc

I feel like I'm missing something if anyone would care to help explain!

It's toe the line, it is not required to tow it anywhere

Many years ago I worked in a call centre, and our boss actually banned us from saying bare bear with me, as apparently it was sexist I can't remember his exact argument but it was something along the lines of only women can bear children, so it was discriminatory. Twenty years on and I still don't get it!

Viscous/vicious
Affect/effect
Aloud/allowed

And many,many more. I'm not a very nice person

Why do people start these threads? Is it to make other posters feel a bit thick?

I think that is often the reason. It does get tiresome, especially when so many posters have a very prescriptive approach to English.

I think more people should be sensitive to the fact that learning difficulties or lack of educational opportunities are often the reason that people make mistakes.

Some people have a block on things like lose/loose. I know it but I have to stop and think every time, it is not automatic.

I look things up but it does not stick as it is not memorable enough. Ihave an exceptionally poor visual memory. (worse than a five year olds)

Hambag anyone?

Break and brake

The breaks on my car failed

Really?

And people who genuinely put quite instead of quiet (I know this is sometimes autocorrected due to typos, but I also know that a lot of times it isnt!)

I also had a friend on an internet forum who regularly posted 'definately' instead of definitely (I suppose it wasn't defiantly though!).

(somebody at work today advertised a 3 peace sofa... )

MN in 20 years time will have no excuse. The Y5 & 6 new curriculum spelling list includes:
pronunciation
accommodate
committee
definite
embarrass
forty
twelfth
harass

etc.

I used to wonder who came up with this ridiculous list and now I know. It was MN Pedants' Corner .

Oooh yes, that is a bit of a clanger. But then I often get affect and effect muddled up.

It's / its.

And when people use the possessive apostrophe for plurals. E.g. I'm going to cook some egg's.

I agree Seneca, but my beef is with teachers who consistently spell words incorrectly. I have to spell things correctly in my job, and it's nothing to do with education. I admit, I have a huge issue with teachers who teach...and can't spell...arrgggh.

I mean, my job is nothing to do with education.

There you are, I apply the same judginess to myself when I write appallingly.

Bike

Thank you. I knew that. Have you just found out?

hahaha

Look what you've done OP

Now I have to see the expression BARE with me on my active conversations page

I wanted to say YABU but then realised, the absolute instant I saw your post title in "Trending" I felt irritation, then hackles rising, within space of probably 2 seconds

WHY do I care?! I don't know. I just do. I think possibly as, a nation of people spelling and enunciating in slapdash fashion = lazy slobs en masse to me

I once had an argument with an ex who was asking me how he should word a job application and when I said "would have" he said errm, no you're saying it wrong, its "would of" you, know, as in "I would of done this"

Thicko McDicko wouldn't believe he was wrong and gave me a very long and patronising lecture on being sure I know what Im talking about before I talk (errrm shouldn't that be 'before I speak?' )

People make the world go round I suppose..

What about a "wide birth"? Heehee, always makes me think of childbearing hips!

The pronunciation of "would have" as "would of" is mainly a matter of accent or of pronouncing the contraction "would've." Writing it "of" is, of course, a mistake, but it comes from the way people hear it and pronounce it.

Someone was selling a caravan on Facebook selling pages earlier. They proclaimed it had 'no leeks'.
I desperately wanted to ask if it had radishes or the odd lettuce but managed to sit on my hands for once

Eh, doesn't bother me. As long as I can reasonably interpret what they mean then it's fine. Some people have English as a second language, (English is actually one of the hardest languages to learn ), dyslexic, or just not very good at spelling/grammar. :)

My pet hate (today) is wander and wonder. No, you didn't 'wonder around the shops', unless you were picking everything up with a gasp, questioning what it was. Which is possible, I suppose.

To PP's - the reason people start threads like (I think) is because of course in the grand scheme of it doesn't matter and because you don't actually want to alienate you friends by correcting them all the time, but you've spent a lot of time and effort to get it bloody right and it's irritating how other people seem to sail their way through their lives without caring! And because your bloody mother commented on every sodding little thing you said when you were growing up and you want your turn at feeling superior, ok? Well, maybe that last one is just me...