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 have never heard rest bite before!

A lot of these mistakes reflect how much reading someone has done. All the spelling tests in the world won't help them if they don't see phrases written down. Hence 'play on my mind', 'reign them in' and so on.

I think 'worse' instead of 'worst' annoys me the most, closely followed by 'I could care less'.

What drove my ex-father in law mad was people saying 'r' in words where there isn't one. So 'sawing' pronounced as 'sore-ing'. I must admit I am probably guilty and had never thought about it until I met him.

As long as you get the gist of what they're trying to say does it really matter??

My pet hate is "balling my eyes out".

I once saw a lady described as 'whaling and balling' -presumably she's very good at multitasking.

Accommodation.

I know it's confusing having two double letters, but surely that should make it easier! the number of times I have seen this incorrectly written on estate agents' particulars, pubs, B&Bs. Surely if this is your business, and your are getting a sign to put up outside your business, you should check that it has been spelt correctly?

People who muddle affect and effect - and shove random apostrophes into plurals!!

Ect - hate this.

*@glitterblue they need to be flogged at dawn, flogged I tell ya!

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

Midrift
Laxadaisical
Mute point
Restauranteur

All irritating. Perhaps not in the same league as Mumsnet's habitual replacement of the word "bear" with "bare" ("I can't bare my DH breathing", etc.).

Heard a woman on a tv interview talking about making a 'beehive' for the european elections instead of a beeline!

I hate people saying ‘myself’ like it’s a more official word for ‘me’ as in ‘I kindly request you return it to myself as soon as yourself can manage’

I always thought that "play on one's mind" and "prey on one's mind" were separate phrases with subtly different meanings.

I quite like yous actually I think we could use (not yous!) a plural for 'you', which other languages have. Despite the number of words we have in our language we still lack a few. Hence the Meaning of Liff book of course!

i saw a sign at a produce stand near Wisbech selling ‘nektrins’. took me a while to figure it out.

BUT! my current irritation is the number of characters on Eastenders who call Keanu ‘Ke-ar-no’.

it’s in the bloody script! it’s his name! say it properly! or, directors, tell people to say it properly.

does my swede, i tell ya.

A thread like this which points out common, generic errors is OK, and quite entertaining. But seizing on another person's spelling and grammar, with the sole aim of discrediting them to make yourself look superior, will never make you look anything other than an arsehole.

All be it [sic] ...

If you happen to mark other people's essays, correcting spelling and grammar is a necessity. But in most other contexts, it's just rude.

and a man on the radio the other day who referred to a ‘doggy-dog world’. heee!

Rest bite and lose/loose drive me crazy

@angelomysterioso, both utmost and upmost are correct. They just mean two very different things, with upmost short for uppermost.

I've noticed a lot of young people on tv are saying "generally" when they mean "genuinely".

As in "I generally like you", "I generally didn't mean it"

Argghhh, it really drives me mad.

I do more than my share of spelling mistakes and typos, so I am not bothered about the ones I see, apart from

could OF been

Completely irrational but it really drives me insane

The r in words without an r isn't wrong, it depends on your accent. It's called a rhotic r and I think it tends to depend on if you're from the North or South.

It's the same thing that made bbc presenters refer to 'jessica rennis' during the Olympics.

Pre Madonna is one I see quite often (I frequent a couple of football forums and players are often referred to as being a ‘pre Madonna’).

Something I find really annoying is the lack of punctuation. Long sentences containing several different points which just all run into each other and make no sense whatsoever.

One of my nursing colleagues wrote Poly, instead of poorly!

My DH text a few weeks ago saying how fed up he was with "too-ing and throw-ing."

Highly educated man in a professional role. He had no idea!

"Reign it in" where it should be "rein it in" is the one that does it for me. It just doesn't make sense.
DH does the "could of" "should of" thing. It makes me want to kill him with my bare hands.