People, goddamnit, the things on your car are BRAKES

This one really bothers me.

You BREAK your arm, or I may BREAK your head if you keep using this stupid construction.

You put the BRAKES on your car, or on a relationship.

While we’re at it, “BEAR” either shits in the woods or is something you carry.

“BARE” is naked or to make naked.

Now cut it out!

There are also many other ways they’re fucking up their usage of words that drive me batshit.

I will defend to the death my right to bare arms.

Especially during the warmer months.

And I defend MY right to arm bears.

Yeah, but do you have the courage to arm bares?

Or brake arms?

Or break bear arms?

Sorry, all of our mechanics are on a break. In the brake room.

Better than them being on a brake in the break room.

here here

ETA: I mint too say “me to.”

“Wreckless” is the one that gets me, because that spelling implies a meaning 180 degrees opposite from the word they meant.

Hey, maybe you feel like carrying a bear. Me, I’d rather not take my chances.

Hey, it’s nothing to loose your temper over.

One of the major industries in my hometown was the factory of the New York Air Brake Co., known to nearly everyone as “the Brake Shop.” An enterprising bartender opened up a bar nearby for Brake Shop employees to stop off at on their way home – and he named it “the Break Shop.” :slight_smile:

You’re from Watertown, N.Y.?

This explains much. :slight_smile:

Eh, what’re ya gonna do. Them’s the breaks.

This one drives me absolutely batshit! A restaurant we used to frequent in Idaho has a sign over their doorway stating “We’re glad your here.” I often threatened to bring a sharpie to add the apostrophe and e.

“Alot” makes me want to kick puppies, and I see it on here all the time. People, it is “a lot.”

See, this is witty. I can deal with this.

The rest of you Punners - Punsters go to a Very Bad Place.

it’s terrible, but most of my japanese kids who can barely string together more than two or three sentences still know the difference between
(there, their, they’re)
(its, it’s)
(then, than)
(your, you’re)
the only one they still struggle with is which and witch, and of course 'wich (as in damnit woman, go make me a san’wich :smiley: )

You’re all correct about standard orthography, but, eh, why get so worked up over it? It doesn’t particularly bother me if someone happens to employ a variant spelling; it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg, as they say.