Almost any mangling of the homonyms annoys me so much. "Bare" for "Bear", "Here" for "Hear", "There" for "Their".
I think they get on my goat because they're IMO fairly common words, so it's kind of expected that one would be able to know the correct spelling of each and know which is which. I'm much more lenient when trying to spell funky words, but those words? Come on! No English speaker can say they don't use those words more than 1000 times a day!
Maybe it's time to do what French did: get ourselves a language council.
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