Free REIN! Not reign. BEAR with me not bare.

[heldinadream]

The number of times I want to write the above on a thread is growing and growing, but I bite my tongue and sit on my hands because such comments never bring relief they merely unleash abuse and derision and accusations of grammar Nazism.
Now tell me, should I have capitalised 'Nazi' in this context? I could not decide.
I can take it.

Every time someone says bare with me I imagine them naked. And reign it in or free reign earns them a crown. 👸I am a very visual person as well as a language lover. So I cannot help it, my days are increasingly populated by naked posters and posters that have become royal.
As for chester draws - little Chester, sitting there with his pencils...

I must yield to your superior knowledge here @WimseyofBalliol (great credentials in your name, too).

Spotted out in the wild - a thread about 'ranger rovers', and with no capitals, too.
I have a herd of wild dogs now leaping through my head!

Actually, I don’t know what I was thinking — I love Harriet Vane, but feel Peter needs a smack.

@WimseyofBalliol Harriet is one of literatures greatest creations. Wimsey is far too revered, Harriet was definitely the star of the books.

Fuck me I missed out an apostrophe! Hangs head in shame and slinks away from thread in utter disgrace...😳

'I could care less' irks me.. it's couldn't care less!

The use of slither instead of sliver.

A cookery programme where the chef suggested a "slither of lemon peel" as a garnish caused a fair bit of ranting in this house I can tell you.

I remember bear with me as in having forebearance. It's not forebarence. I'm not even sure if that's a word. Although it probably will be, either somewhere on here or on Facebook Marketplace.

Speaking of FB marketplace. Scrolling down the featured items I am eventually offered a selection of "Items from FARTHER away"
Bugs me every time.

Bear/bare grates on me.
I'm a civil engineer. I read and write about "bearing capacity" a lot. I'm constantly astonished by how many people who ought to know better, write "baring capacity" .

Breath rhymes with death
Breathe rhymes with seethe

I also get VERY irritated by those being mixed up, OP!

I can't even look at Facebook Marketplace, not even through my fingers with my eyes screwed up.

I think the final straw was someone selling a Citrone car. I was sitting here yelling 'it's written on the bloody car!!! Just go outside and check!!!'

My poor blood pressure.

One I hear regularly at work is "I'm rediverting the load" no you're not, you're diverting the load, like rewind back a tape

Also said by same colleague "I'll find out if he's rationalising the product", that one took me a while to figure out, she meant rationing

this particular colleague could fill the thread

Faze not phase

I think many of the 'grammar and spelling' offenders don't listen properly or read much.

'Defiantly' being used instead of 'definitely'...I see it all the time, they're entirely different words with different meanings so I just don't understand the confusion.

@Aribaariba that one is horrible. And so widespread. 😖

It's definately ('defiantly') a fact that a lot of people don't read anything that's not online any more. So mistakes just get taken as fact and then perpetuated. Some, of course, are auto correct errors - which I think is where the 'defiantly' for definitely came in, and then more and more people are reading defiantly and thinking 'oh, it must be right then' because they've never read it written correctly.

I think the waters were muddied with the many fashion articles about Michelle Obama's 'right to bare arms'

Don't loose your head OP

Shite. I can’t tell if you’re kidding or serious, THAT’S how far I’ve fallen…
So I shall simply quote Macbeth and say,
”All my pretty ones?
Did you say all?—O hell-kite!—All?
What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam,
At one fell swoop?”

Also, my favorite from a thread the other day was “cudnt of.” The spelling, the grammar; all it was missing was a top hat, then it could have been a full musical number.

Oh, now I get that way of saying it - usually used in the US but it's said with irony and works well:

I could care less... then the unspoken bit after that is 'but I don't' (shrug), so it does mean I couldn't care less, just as we say it!

IYSWIM

Oh. I've literally (minutes ago) just used the incorrect term on a post. Oh well.

It's the unnecessary S at the end of words/names that irritate me. Tescos. Lidls. Asdas. It's always supermarkets.

@5YearsLeft ha ha ha - no I temporarily lost my mind. I mean of course it's fell, and someone corrected me upthread (nothing better for a grammar Nazi than to be corrected) and I still didn't get it, and then a while later I thought of course it's fell swoop I've been saying it all my life!
In my defence though, I do think if it was foul swoop it would be foul, not fowl.
Not much of a defence.

'Fell' meant bad or evil, so a 'fell swoop' was something evil dropping down and causing harm.

As an aside, my pony was a Fell (breed) and we used to call him our 'Fell beast'. He never took offence.

You see and hear 'exasperated' when it should be 'exacerbated'.