To be so irritated by this common spelling mistake

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I’ve noticed about five different people in the last few days saying ‘rest bite’ when they mean respite.

It’s making my fucking teeth itch!

Yes YABU... this is why I am coming off mums Net- because OP worry about first world problems, and people who have nothing better to do with their lives!!

Yes YABU... this is why I am coming off mums Net- because OP worry about first world problems, and people who have nothing better to do with their lives!!

Bye bye.

Yes YABU... this is why I am coming off mums Net- because OP worry about first world problems, and people who have nothing better to do with their lives!!

You came all this way just to say that?

FFS IT'S AITCH, AITCH!!!!".

Nope!

I can't stand 'Aitch', It's Haitch to me. Purely because when you say a word that begins with Haitch,. Majority of the time, you make the "huh" sound. Makes sense to use the 'H' when saying the letter.

"Haitch" is not wrong.

Nothink

Yes YABU... this is why I am coming off mums Net- because OP worry about first world problems, and people who have nothing better to do with their lives!!

So you had something better to do at 1.30am on Sunday morning, but you choose to open the thread and comment?

I'm the opposite @TessieVanKendre 'H'aitch drives me mad.

I can stand haitch either. Why is it just this letter that suffers from mispronunciation?

You don’t hear people saying ‘fef’, ‘lel’ or ‘mem'...?

And another thing that grates on here is the odd poster that uses ‘n’ for and. Grrrr.

ed did you read the Guardian link above about the history and changing pronunciation of the letter H?

Ed not a mispronunciation, a different pronunciation.

Etc... Not ect

It's etc... Not ect

Better than "Lack Toast" for lactose intolerant!!

I can stand haitch either. Why is it just this letter that suffers from mispronunciation?

FFS it's not a mispronunciation, it's a regional variation. It was certainly "H" where I grew up in east central Scotland.

Amount and number - no-one seems to get the difference. It's everywhere - even on the news.

The amount number of MPs who voted for....... FFS!

We are no longer allowed to comment though for fear of offending someone. We are in a position where any form of criticism is now seen as offensive in some way, and any insistence on a specific way of doing something, (unless it can be put down to compliance with Health and Safety Regulations), is considered to be some form of evil control.

(Still many of these make me laugh.) I do get that is rude and usually unhelpful to correct people though and would not do it. I am talking about large organizations and within education.

I live in an area where people say "brought" instead of "bought" and I absolutely HATE it. You don't bry things, you BUY them. And afterwards they are bought, not bloody brought.

It really irritates me.

Hilarious thread. The gumtree lawn mower could be the winner. Saw "mabey" the other day; took me a moment to figure it out. Absolute, absolute current pet hate though is starting every sentence with "So". I can almost understand a youngster wanting to be all on trend, but there was a Chief of Police on R4 the other morning who started every frigging reply with "So....."

@HPLikecraft, I grew up in Glasgow and it was 'aitch' there, never 'haitch', but I agree it's just different in different areas.

@LordPickle, Bedfordshire by any chance? DH says brought instead of bought and it drives me nuts!

There’s a lot of pedalling rather than peddling going on at the moment.

And vice versa..,,,.

I keep hearing people say 'tribuneral' I stead of tribunal. I'm guessing it's a mix up with funeral?

There's also a weird one my boss does where he actually types 'we're' instead of 'we'll' and even 'i're' instead of 'i'll'.

I live in an area where people say "brought" instead of "bought"

I don't think it's a location thing - it's more likely ignorance, i.e. not knowing the past tense of the verbs to bring/buy.

@BenWillbondsPants No, I'm in the East Midlands. I always thought it must be some local anomaly but it would appear to be more widespread. 😱

Sometimes I see posts on here that have it and I immediately hide the thread. "We just brought a new house". NO. Just no.

Mabey instead maybe and dose instead of does make my eye twitch!

Used listen to Scott Mills on Radio 1 years ago, he was terrible for using would/could of so I blame him!

@OhDearGodLookAtThisMess I would agree with you partially about the ignorance thing because my DH and his family all say it and they also thought that "several" meant "seven".

But I have a dear friend that says it and she's national level manager for a large company so she's intelligent.

Not everyone here says it but enough do to really irritate me. It just sounds so stupid.

I don't think it's a location thing - it's more likely ignorance, i.e. not knowing the past tense of the verbs to bring/buy.

I disagree @OhDearGodLookAtThisMess . I live in Bedfordshire and it's very common to hear people say it, particularly in the more rural villages.

I'll be sure to tell my DH that he's just ignorant though ...