To be so irritated by this common spelling mistake

[CaptainCabinets]

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!

New one discovered today on MN: "hasent" as opposed to "doesn't", also in the post.

MrsLin those nuns, as teachers, likely came from the era of elocution lessons.
Weird thing that that is/was.

I’m just remembering the days when I worked as a legal secretary. I was doing some temping for a Local Authority in the days when they had typing pools. I was doing audio typing for various departments and one letter came back to me with a couple of corrections. Except that they changed my correct grammar to incorrect grammar! I can’t recall what the error was, sadly.

I ignored the correction and the letter didn’t come back to me amazingly enough.

Ughhhhhhhh Rest bite!

It doesn’t even make sense.

I had to hold my hands down to avoid typing something on a different forum when instead of writing “headed” the forum user kept writing “head” on their trip report, across several days worth of posts.

Think, “Our alarm went off just as planned. We quickly got dressed and ate some breakfast then head for the airport.”, “When we arrived we were so tired we head straight for bed”, “We got downstairs then realised I’d left the nappy bag behind so I head back to the hotel room while Ben head for the bus stop. After I grabbed the nappy bag I head for the bus stop to.” “When we arrived in (place name) we both head to the bar for a cocktail. We were quickly told our table was ready so we head for our table.”

I wanted to tear out my own eyes. It was worse than Chester Draws. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH.

‘Your’ instead of ‘you’re’ really irritates me. ‘Would of’ instead of ‘would have’ is worse, what does it even mean???
‘Rest bite’ instead of ‘respite’ is an entirely new one on me. But why? What could it ever mean??

I've seen "defer" instead of "defect" used a couple of times. I really hope that doesn't catch on, since it would make absolutely no sense in most cases!

Yup that's what I meant sashh. And of course that means it's pretty nasty to judge or comment on whichever version someone uses.

So true, it would be like correcting an American for saying tomato as to-mate-o.

jewel1968

Has your son got any books by David Crystal? My dad is in his 80s and after a conversation about use of dialect I bought him, 'the Cambridge encyclopedia of the English Language' followed by 'the Cambridge encyclopedia of the Language' and then one I can't remember the title of, but he worked with his son who is an actor to recreate the original pronunciation of Shakespeare's plays.

I'm pretty sure people say rest bite, I had no idea is was respite! Using borrow instead of lend is my issue.

I thought cowtailing referred to kowtowing.

Interesting I thought curtailing.

Although I am guilty of referring to those I work with as cow orkers.

I work in a school. Unfortunately, many of the younger (under 50) teachers have a surprisingly poor grasp of English grammar. One of the most frequently occurring errors is the use of "myself" instead of "me". For example, in a staff meeting recently, a deputy head said "please speak to Peter or myself after the meeting if you have any questions". Argh! One of these days I will say "argh" out loud by mistake!
I've also seen erroneous apostrophes and other grammatical errors in emails that teachers have sent to parents.
There appears to be a generational difference. The older teachers, aged 50+, tend not to make these mistakes. It must be due to changes in the education system in the last 30 years or so.

I've just seen "Cutting you nose in spite of your face comes to mind" on a thread.

@80sMum sadly when ours were at primary (2000) poor grammar was rife. The teachers of 50 must have been taught by the generations above so it's deeper than you infer.

It is the principle reason why we transferred our children to the independent sector where it was not an issue. It is a significant factor in relation to career outcomes but one that is not being addressed. The emphasis is always on elitism and class rather than the basic competencies of English and mathematics.

We have ended up with a society that is well qualified but spectacularly badly educated.

@80sMum, I absolutely agree. Our Head sent an email to staff full of incorrect homophones. It was embarrassing.

I occasionally share a classroom with another teacher (a lovely NQT) and often see errors on the board when I go in. 'There going to the park' etc.

I've just seen this: 'I think if OP had of said she worn it' which blows my mind.

Spotted on my Facebook-

Carn't.....

I so want to tell her. She does it all the time 🤬🤬🤬🤬

wrong usage of 'brought'.

"On route"!!!!! Gives me the RAAAGGGE! 🙄🤯😠

I've just seen "Cutting you nose in spite of your face comes to mind" on a thread.

When I was a child I thought it was ‘cut off your nose to spike your face’ 🤦‍♀️

It drives me mad when hosts of competitive shows say " The team leaving are" It is the team leaving IS !!! Strictly is guilty of this as well as Bake Off The Professionals. Get the grammar police.

Or Bradley Walsh on The Chase - ‘if you was to win today...’ grrr

Yous is my top irritant (as in the fictional plural of you)

Everyone says this in NI and a lot of people don't realise it's incorrect and not actually a word.
I never say it but get the feeling when I say 'you' as plural people think I'm talking about them specifically.

Also common to use 'woman' instead of women bloody drives me mad.

I like yous, it totally should be a word.
Let’s make it happen!

‘The team are’ sounds right to me, I’m sure you can say either?

The team are’ sounds right to me, I’m sure you can say either?

No. The team is singular therefore the team ‘is’.

If you said the team members then ‘are’ would be correct.