re: Bear/Bare With Me. page 3
I was about to type "please bare with me" into an email, but as I was about to type "bare", I realized that I wasn't sure which [Bare/Bear] was the correct usage of the phrase.
Doing my own research into it, there are entire blogs dedicated to the history of the phrase, but each with only one particular spelling, not mentioning the other, and each offering possible origins based on the single spelling they chose.
Most of these seem strictly opinion, leading to my question; Is there an official answer to this, as in a source to reference it against?
Comments (Page 3)
Very funny.
Clive
I surely can sleep now.
Have you read the rest of this thread?
'Bear' is correct. It means 'bring, carry, tolerate'. The bearer of bad news is the bringer or carrier of bad news.
If you tell someone to 'Bare up', it sounds like you are telling them to take their clothes off!
Clive
See, words can have more than one meaning. (Yuk! Who kissed that slimy seal)
''bare naked" is redundant.