It's RESPITE, not REST BITE

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MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 27/05/2025 11:11

Just needed to get that out after seeing rest bite in yet another post.

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JaneJeffer · 27/05/2025 17:33

smellyhouseelf · 27/05/2025 16:02

The problem is, people only know what they know. Acting like people are stupid or beneath you because they haven't learned the same information you have, is just plain nasty. I know and have always understood it to be respite, but 'a bite of rest' also makes sense.

I have a friend who is hard of hearing. She often mispronounces or misunderstands things, and at 42 is still learning new words when she sees them written down for the first time. She is highly intelligent.

This is in Pedants’ corner though!

thecatneuterer · 27/05/2025 17:33

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 27/05/2025 16:52

Some people literally don't read anything more than text messages and maybe short captions alongside videos. Tabloids avoid using words the average eight-year-old doesn't understand.

When I'm being charitable I try to think maybe their logic is a rest and a bite [to eat].

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I understand that. But the poster I quoted said the person had had a good education. Same with those saying professionals do it. These are people who surely read/have read more than Facebook and The Sun.

VIOLETPUGH · 27/05/2025 17:35

I work in emergency services and yes this is real, really irritates me !

HeadCreature · 27/05/2025 19:12

I had an email from a fellow Head Teacher asking about rest bite for a family.
I replied using “respite”.
Later, in person she told me she’d laughed at my error, then looked it up and rapidly moved from laughing at me to cringing as she’d been using it wrongly for years.

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