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

Ah, I love the phrase 'bear with me' because (apart from being correct) I like bears and would like to have a bear with me. 'Bare with me' ? Yuck!

In a similar vein, it's warm and sunny now, and those lucky Americans have the right to bare arms.

I have found my people. The free rein/reign thing is interesting- I actually looked this up the other day to confirm that I am right and DH is wrong (yes, I am sad) and it said that it is free rein but that free reign does sort of make sense so it's not as wrong as some other things.
It's hard to explain to non-pedants just how distressing it is to read 'should of' and 'I can't bare it', we just can't help it.
I actually had palpitations last week at a market stall advertising potato's, carrot's, cauli's, tomato's and brocoli's. It's actually quite a difficult thing to live with.

Yanbu!

I once totally embarrassed DD by adding a note to her maths homework informing the teacher that 'trapeziums' should actually be 'trapezia'. The teacher told DD to tell me that I need to get out more.

Some years ago I lived next to primary school at which the nursery had a big home-made sign reading 'Small Fries'.
I wrote to the HT (pre-kids/time on my hands) as it gave me the rage every time I went by.
They actually replied to tell me that fries are baby fishes.

Alan Titchmarsh, How to Be a Gardener.

Throughout both volumes of the book, "its" - as in, belonging to it - is spelt "it's" - which, as any fule nose [sic] is a contraction of "it is".

Message boards are.one thing, especially for people with fat fingers (like yours truly) and rogue autocorrects.

But a proper book ? That I paid proper money for ? Written by a proper Alan Titchmarsh and edited by a proper editor ?

Not very good, is it ?

English, incidentally, really isn't a very hard language to learn, which of course is why it has succeeded where Esperanto and Klingon have failed and become a genuwine [sic] international language.

Oh yeah, and aren't people who persist with intentional funny misspellings then follow them up with [sic] every time seriously irritating ?

Mind you, hopefully not quite as irritating as that individual I once saw tearing the piss out of the greengroc'ers apostr'ophe then following it up with [sick].

Hehehe.

Itriedtodohandstandsforyou I do know fo' sure how to spell surely.
I believe that that particular way of spelling it (shurely) with an aitch, is used in a satirical fashion elsewhere (Private Eye perhaps?)

Loose/lose drives me mad, although not literally.

[sick] [sic] lol

I used to know a teacher who pronounced "integers" as "intEGGers" and corrected a male child's spelling of "I have blond hair" to "blondE"!

Re Piano's for sale... there are some people who make the mistake of putting an apostrophe in all plurals. There are others, who probably think they are being very sophisticated, who only do it when the singular word ends with a vowel. Maybe they think people might think a word like "pianos" would be pronounced with "os" at the end like Carlos. There's a takeaway in my town that uses this "rule" in its sign which says:

BURGERS - CHIPS - PIZZA'S - KEBABS

Oh, and people who write truely instead of truly

Sliver & Slither - grrr

I am horrible. I'll freely admit it. Grammar and spelling mistakes make me angry.

At the moment, I am sick of seeing "rediculous" instead of "ridiculous". I've got a fairly strong regional accent (one that gets bad press on some threads on here) and I don't pronounce it redddiculuss.

I sometimes have to sit on my hands to stop myself correcting spelling mistakes on fb. I hate incorrect spellings. I have to not say anything.

My lovely dd is very dyslexic and works harder than anyone I know. I know she'll be annoying people all her life with the spellings everyone here has pointed out.

Estate agents' blurbs are a good source of pedant fodder. Among other things (accomodation is a favourite) they are very fond of shower cubicals and flower boarders.

A small flat was advertised as a 'pier deter'

*Affect is a verb, a doing word. Spending time with my Mum affects me.

Effect is a noun, a thing. The effect of spending time with my Mum is that I feel stupid.*

As pp have pointed out, the verb/noun distinction is not true at all. Affect means to change in some way; effect means to bring about e.g. we can all effect change.
Both can also be nouns.

A cafe near me has a menu which offers lasania.
And pizza's with various topping's.

Another Estate Agent pet hate, comprising of.

I thought [sic] was pronounced 'seek'?

Ghost been listening to a podcast - 2 audio ones that I hadn't realised were irritations before:

"Unrelentlessly" do you you mean unreservedly or relentlessly ?

Anonymous vs confidential - they aren't the same thing!

Ghost = just

Look OP get over yourself, this is only an Internet massage board you know.

I opened this thread hoping to see a call to nudity. Disappointed now.

I often see posts on some FB groups I'm in with people asking for some "advise" and it makes me scream inside my head every single time. No I can't give you advise! I can advise you or give you advice.

It's must be a commonly mixed up one as I see it pretty much every day on there.

I see a lot of asking for 'advise' too. It makes me want to cyber-slap the posters, which then makes ME feel bad, since the poor things are often at the end of their tethers trying to cope with dementia. Another one I see a lot there is 'career' instead of 'carer' - I try to put that one down to pesky auto-correct.