Wrong words - part 2

Tweet

I know I've already talked about this using the wrong word, but there are a few that really drive me nuts. "Bare" and "bear" is one of them. "Bear" can be that big scary critter you don't want to run into in the woods, but it also means to hold things up. "He could bear the weight no longer." It can also mean things like "The female bear could bear more than one bear cub." Whereas, "bare" normally means things that are uncovered. "The reporter showed the bare facts to the public." "In the spring the bare legs are pale." http://www.dictionary.com/browse/bare Not as often miss used, but seen a few times: "break" and "brake." "He had a lucky break that the brakes didn't fail." http://www.dictionary.com/browse/break http://www.dictionary.com/browse/brake Now... in the past before spellings were more formally laid out, these words were probably used interchangeably. However, in the last hundred years "inventive" spellings have been discouraged. I am going to say that I haven't seen as much of this on myLot, but as @msiduri pointed out, it's pretty bad over on Facebook...