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!

I'm not convinced Alexa — I'm sure that (in British English at least) you can use either with collective nouns.

If you're talking about the team as a whole, then it would be singular: "the team is playing at home next week".

But we can also use team to mean the members of the team. So "After dinner, the team went to their hotel rooms to have an early night before the match". You'd have to use the plural in that case (unless they really were all in one dormitory!).

I can't remember the term for it, but it's where we shift the verb agreement so it makes sense in context.

Metonymic shift — I just checked!

British English typically changes the verb so it agrees with the sense of the noun being treated as a plural. American English re-writes the sentence to avoid doing that.

I believe the plural "team are" is correct in US American English grammar, whereas "team is" is correct in British English grammar.

"Devine" seems a popular spelling mistake. It annoys me.

Subject-verb agreement in American and British English.

My spelling is a bit crap but there’s a very good reason for that, however I do try to spell things correctly.

Definately is my pet hate. Nowhere in the world is definately the correct spelling, it’s definitely. Also should of could of etc. Now I think of it ect winds me up, as does off of.

More picky is people writing prospective when they mean perspective, brought instead of bought and one I’ve noticed lately, confirming to rather than conforming to, as in conforming to stereotypes.

My exMIL had a few belters. She worked in a care home and when discussing elderly patients she’d talk about their ‘power of eternity’ rather than attorney. also when getting the dog spayed she’d say ‘I’m getting the dog spaded.’ She was great though. She was a very capable woman despite having little education, an asshat husband and three alcoholic sons.

@Whatisthisfuckery "spaded" is one of my pet hates.

On a local Facebook group recently one lady wrote that she had had her Male cat spaded. My fingers were itching 😂

My friend always sends me messages saying she “defiantly” wants to meet up. I always reply “Well, if you definitely want to meet up, how about x day and time?”.

Six years on, she’s still saying defiantly for definitely .

Same as 'rest bite' has a certain logic to it, I'm reminded of 'a piece of quiet' - (peace and quiet) - something I used to say when small, which also makes some sort of sense.

'Off of' irritates the crap out of me, ditto people who aren't American saying 'go get.., go see...' etc. - and 'math'!

As PPs say, 'the team are' is perfectly legitimate.

I'm also a big yous/youse/y'all fan. Many (if not most) other languages differentiate between the second person singular and plural.

I often read these threads and find myself wishing people would learn to differentiate between 'regional'/'not "standard" English'/'not in my particular vocabulary' and 'wrong'. I find the errors people lament on here tend to fall into three groups: 1) genuinely wrong and, yes, annoying (e.g. 'could of'), 2) non-standard or from a dialect culturally looked down upon ('yous', 'haitch'), and 3) new/recent usages that people like to look down upon to set them apart from a group of people they tend to think of as a bit inferior. Some of these also fall into 1), but the sneering at them still makes me feel rather uncomfortable. 'Rest bite' is an example. It's an inaccurate, but perfectly respectable and in itself logical attempt to render something the person has possibly never seen written down.

LOTS of these annoy me too. But I am a bit of a grammar freak.
I think most are down to poor pronunciation.

Could of and would of [instead of have] are so annoying. But if people hear 'could've' it does sound like could of. And if they have no knowledge of grammar, then I guess it's understandable.

And don't start me on apostrophes...

I keep noticing Iv instead of I’ve.

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

That's reminded me of Alan Sugar on The Apprentice - "The team that makes the most amount of money will ..." How hard would it be to leave "amount of" out of that sentence?

Muddling up bought and brought are annoying, I agree.

I get irritated by lose and loose. The past tenses are lost [one 'O'] and loose [two Os] which should help indicate the correct one to use?

"I don't want to lose my purse.
My laces have come loose."

And 'Can I get...?' when ordering in a restaurant instead of 'Can I have...?'
Our son and his girlfriend both said this when ordering recently - I asked if they were going into the kitchen? Neither even realised what they had said.

Actually it should be "May I have?"

Stacey Dooley was over-correcting that on something I saw recently.

"Judges, please may you tell us...". I'm sure they may, and probably will if you ask them properly!

Could of
Should of
Would of
Tender hooks
Ares (ours)
He’s (his)
Ar (our)
Defiantly (definitely)
There/they’re/their
And one that always drives me totally insane.
My mum once wrote me a note for a pe exception.
“Please excuse toffeepennie has she as had tonsillitis”
Irrationally angry - but everyone in my area gets the two mixed up. Argh!

Can I add "I had a peak at the new..."

Peek people. EE like your eyes!!

Loose instead of lose, drives me nuts. Also a friend constantly uses are instead of our in her texts e.g “ we’ve just had are tea!! “ but I have to accept that most people are not bothered about spelling and grammar these days. Just makes me wonder why it was SO important when I was at school! 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think many phrases get mis spoken because they are not pronounced properly. I tease my husband who pronounces Wales, Whales and Wells
all as Wells. So if he suggests visiting Wells, I asks if he means Wells or Wales. Many Bristolians simply say “Welsh Wells” ( meaning Wales) because their speech does not differentiate the different sounding names, ( if you get my meaning.)