I am loathe

[42WallabyWay]

Loath - unwilling/reluctant
Loathe - hate/detest

'I am hate to spend so much on something I'll wear once.' This is how I read it!

Am I being a bit OTT to allow such a small, easy-to-make error to bug me?

“Am I being a bit OTT to allow such a small, easy-to-make error to bug me?”

Isn’t that what pedants’ corner is for? 😉

Hahaha, I read over my post and saw it. Bollocks!

I dont think there’s an error. The sentence is a bit unwieldy, I suppose.

I just meant, grouse away. We’re all pedants, here!

Wow, I did not know they were two seperate words, thank you!!!

Isn't it loth? 😉

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loth

haha. This one isn’t bad in the great scheme of things. I get more unhappy about ‘Five items or less’. And all the ‘He upset my husband and I’, type sentences.
The one thing I DO struggle over is where speech marks go.
Have I put them in the right places? Does it depend on whether you’re in the UK or US.
I sense pple on here will know :-)

Am I being a bit OTT to allow such a small, easy-to-make error to bug me?

Yes

@HardcoreLadyType Ah, I thought the final 'to bug me' didn't look/sound right when I read over. I only worry about my grammar in this corner

Thank you OP, I hadn’t realised.

And now I have yet more transgressions against our language to rail against when I spot the mistake elsewhere 🤯 😂

@TempleOfBloom I was corrected about 7 years ago on MN for using of/have interchangeably (eg. 'You shouldn't of/have')... I've naturally had to disapprove of others making exactly the same mistake as me since

I never hear anyone say 'I loathe' or 'I am loath' in real life.