AIBU?
To be getting fed up with "boarders"
joystir59 · 04/04/2021 22:57
...which are not children sleeping in school dorms rather than going home at the end of the school day; but the boundaries between countries, the correct word for which is borders. Borders!!!! Anyone else sick of boarders?
Am I being unreasonable?
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Cadent · 04/04/2021 23:32
@joystir59
What a long-winded way of saying you don’t like borders being misspelled as boarders.
I hate convoluted posts like these.
GreenlandTheMovie · 05/04/2021 00:38
Its weird. Where did it come from?
I know literally not one non-native English speaker who makes this error.
How can people not tell that its a completely different word for a completely different thing?
Worse still, I live near the English border with Scotland, and was subjected to various attacks on FB during the worst of the pandemic insisting "the boarders closed". When I regularly cross "the border" to go to my nearest supermarket. In fact, I can walk across it. No police, bored or otherwise.
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