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Bare with me?

187 replies

Veterinari · 20/06/2016 21:51

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

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CuntTrollingRs · 22/06/2016 13:38

I'm wondering if daisychain was trying to be funny their...Wink

carabos · 22/06/2016 14:03

I've just corrected "prospective" to "perspective" in a slide deck drafted by a senior lawyer...

WeDoNotSow · 22/06/2016 14:12

Twitters 'SoccerGuys' response to people correcting his grammar and not understanding satire;

your reel helpfull. My speling and, grammer and punctuization are getting gooder bye the days)

How many people has that made twitch? Grin

HostaFireandIce · 22/06/2016 14:14

I once attended a health and safety briefing about evacuating venerable people first...

toldmywrath · 22/06/2016 14:25

Well perhaps the Venerable should be evacuated first! I like the idea of that- let's save the good ones, sod the vulnerable. Wink

MangoMoon · 22/06/2016 14:40

Venerable people first! Grin
Love it!

TinklyLittleLaugh · 22/06/2016 14:48

In my younger days I once had a landlord stand over me until I agreed to correct the word "forty" on a cheque to "fourty".

MissHooliesCardigan · 22/06/2016 15:02

The hospital I visit regularly for work has a massive notice saying 'bicicle is not allowed in buildings'. I have to physically look away.

originalmavis · 22/06/2016 15:31

Bicycles, bicycling, bikkies? What the hell does that sign even mean?

BikeRunSki · 22/06/2016 19:21

I see a lot of "wandering" for "wondering", which I find particularly annoying.

BobbinThreadbare123 · 22/06/2016 19:22

How about "DD is 17 and she's off to collage for A Levels"

Is she making a giant composite image or is she really going to a building with classrooms in it?!

Argh! You don't even pronounce college and collage with the same stresses on the syllables!

originalmavis · 22/06/2016 19:27

I did collage at art collage. Arf.

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