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!

Obligated.

It's obliged surely?

An ex-colleague of mine used to thrall through the data rather than trawl though it. I think this stems from her accent in which the two sound very similar.

Interesting wee! I'm off the hook then!

I quite like yous actually smile 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!

Go to the North East and you will hear people saying 'yous' for plural you. I think it's probably an old form that was probably more widespread in the past. Don't know why we didn't keep the distinction in modern English, would be very useful!

All of the above annoying yes

When my mum gets words and phrases muddled we all love it and she laughs along, she's always done it as long as we remember.

Top contenders this week were recommending "lion balm" for headaches and asking me how my OCDC was 😂😂😂

Many sportspeople have surnames beginning with R. Jessica Rennis and Nicola Radams are just two.
I wonder if people know the meaning of what they are saying. Rest bite doesn't make sense, and neither does 'could of'.
Some of the mistakes are due to autocorrect or predictive spelling.

One. Word. Sentences. Aaargh!

Self-entitled.

Makes my teeth itch is more irritating. What is that anyway?

Your and you're even people who appear to be well educated get this one wrong.

Weighted v weighed has been driving me up the wall over on the pregnancy and parenting boards- you are not getting your babies weighted people

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

No, rhotic accents pronounce r’s that are there, they don’t add non existent r’s!

You’re right though, that ‘Jessica Rennis’ is just the result of regional variation/ difference in accent, rather than being “wrong” as such.

And ‘yous’ was pretty common in Scotland when I was growing up. Part of a regional dialect.

On a CV, I once read 'I have experience at the coal face'

I know that those kinds of errors are based on only hearing words and phrases; and not having seen them written down.
And, by the same token, lots of words are mis-pronounced, because they've only seen them written down.

I remember Richard Osman had a Twitter thread about them. It was great.

I have experience at the coal face'

Well what is it supposed to say then? It’s correct surely?

Phew, Alexa, glad its not just me who can’t see anything wrong with that!

Rediculous. See it a lot on FB and it drives me mad!

Laura221
Kudos to you. Long may you continue to learn along with your children. They will be very proud of you. So sorry that you were let down during your school years.

Mindstew instead of mind you!

Just seen this one on another thread. Mute point instead of moot point.

Dave Gorman did a hilarious section on this in his series.

Could of and would of does irritate me but I just ignore them accept when the meaning of the sentence is changed. Yes, that's deliberate!

Your and you're even people who appear to be well educated get this one wrong.

Then they’re not as well educated as they appear. It’s really basic stuff.

Mindstew instead of mind you! 😂

‘Sneak peak’ is mine

Also ‘Should of/would of’

NO!

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

The trouble is that people habitually use it incorrectly, e.g in sentences like "she was doing her upmost to get there on time".

Text when people mean texted is another annoying one.

@pippistrelle
I think the battle is well and truly lost, but I really don't like 'invite' used as a noun.

A kindred spirit!

Given the number of threads about wedding or party invitations, I'm trying to get over it

I'm not.