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To actually hate people who say bought instead of brought

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GentleButter · 08/04/2024 21:41

Why?
WHY DO PEOPLE SAY BOUGHT WHEN THEY SHOULD SAY BROUGHT?
It's unbearable.
I cannot bear it when someone says it.
I'm polite, so I have to use every muscle in my throat and mouth to stop myself from screaming "But you didn't BUY it! So WHY are you saying BOUGHT????"
It happens constantly.
I was in a meeting at work. Someone said "Yes, I bought this issue up the other day" internally, I screamed "But you didn't BUY this issue, so WTF are you saying you BOUGHT it?".
This goes on and on all around me.
Worst of all, my own husband says it, which is insufferable. No amount of me correcting him will make him understand the nonsense of saying 'bought' when he should say 'brought'. And he went to private school, so he was well educated and he still can't get it right. There's no excuse.

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Seymour5 · 29/04/2024 17:13

Watching a well known word game show, and hearing the host say ‘you’ve went’ just set my teeth on edge.

Seymour5 · 28/04/2024 19:40

Very sort after. 😬

BirthdayRainbow · 28/04/2024 13:12

SOxon · 11/04/2024 11:33

False bravado.

With a lot of patronisation.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 28/04/2024 08:44

Another thing that drives me mad - especially around Christmas - is elf’s on shelf’s!

Ditto scarf’s, etc.

And while I’m at it, a label on a supermarket butternut squash telling me to ‘half it’ before going on to do anything else.

My local big Asda used to be a picky pedant’s nightmare, with printed labels saying e.g. that rasers were now in the shampoo aisle*, or that New Zeeland Chedder was now on offer.

*amazing that they managed to spell ‘aisle’ correctly! ‘Isle’, as in supermarket, is one I’ve seen more than once on MN.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 28/04/2024 08:10

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 10/04/2024 00:35

The Dutch take it one step further, with 'five past half four' - meaning 3:35!

Mind, my DM always used to say e.g. 'five and twenty to three' for 2:35; never 'twenty-five to three'. I don't remember anybody else apart from her DM ever saying it that way around.

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I used to have neighbours (inc. a son of my age) who always said five-and-twenty. This was quite a long time ago, though. IMO it’s generally seen as archaic now, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that some old people still say it.
A granny of mine used to say, ‘Ooh, I was vexed!’ - that’s another word you don’t hear any more, or only very rarely. Though I did hear it some years ago from a relatively young man in the Caribbean.

MsLuxLisbon · 13/04/2024 21:52

One that infuriates me is people writing 'women' when they mean 'woman'. So fucking illiterate, it makes me not take anything they have to say seriously.

FunnyZebra · 13/04/2024 21:48

Pacific instead of specific 😤😤😤😤 makes me want to pull my teeth out and when people say I can’t be asked it’s ARSED !!!!!! There’s soooo many more but I’ll be here all night 🫣🫣🫣🫣

BingoMarieHeeler · 13/04/2024 20:26

Reading this in a nursery prospectus today made me think of this thread 😄 Pretty positive they mean ‘engaging with you’ - how we as a nursery engage with you as parents.
An absolutely gorgeous and impressive nursery though, I will be sending my child.
And therein lies a key moral of this thread really. Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face just because you’re a grammar pedant. People can be amazing and brilliant even if their SPAG is not perfect guys!

To actually hate people who say bought instead of brought
BlueBilledBeatboxingBird · 13/04/2024 10:09

beyourownchampion · 13/04/2024 08:06

What REALLY gets my goat is how most young teenagers (and a lot of teachers can’t pronounce words correctly). I work in a secondary school and it’s so apparent spoken English has got very lazy…

eg

I fink instead of think (I want to scream there is a TH sound not a F sound!!!)

Free instead of THREE

Fought instead of THOUGHT

etc. I’ve noticed a lot of Londoners do this in particular…. Why? and don’t get me started on radio DJs who do it, I have to turn the radio off….. (sigh)

How does your goat feel about people who can’t close parentheses accurately? Grin

You can’t have only just noticed that Londoners famously use a ‘f’ sound in place of a ‘th’, eg ‘nawf & sahf’. Wait until you find out about ‘v’ replacing ‘th’, eg ‘muvva’ and ‘bruvva’.

Brats4kid · 13/04/2024 08:56

'I seen' instead of 'I saw' 😡
'Ain't' instead of 'I am not' 😡

ASighMadeOfStone · 13/04/2024 08:44

beyourownchampion · 13/04/2024 08:06

What REALLY gets my goat is how most young teenagers (and a lot of teachers can’t pronounce words correctly). I work in a secondary school and it’s so apparent spoken English has got very lazy…

eg

I fink instead of think (I want to scream there is a TH sound not a F sound!!!)

Free instead of THREE

Fought instead of THOUGHT

etc. I’ve noticed a lot of Londoners do this in particular…. Why? and don’t get me started on radio DJs who do it, I have to turn the radio off….. (sigh)

Because it's one of the most difficult sounds for native speakers to acquire and assimilate when they are young children "learning" their own language.

It is one of the most common issues for English speakers, as any SaLT will tell you.

It's absolutely nothing to do with laziness. Presumably you don't also accuse your students with stammers or lisps of being lazy?

ThanksItHasPockets · 13/04/2024 08:39

beyourownchampion · 13/04/2024 08:06

What REALLY gets my goat is how most young teenagers (and a lot of teachers can’t pronounce words correctly). I work in a secondary school and it’s so apparent spoken English has got very lazy…

eg

I fink instead of think (I want to scream there is a TH sound not a F sound!!!)

Free instead of THREE

Fought instead of THOUGHT

etc. I’ve noticed a lot of Londoners do this in particular…. Why? and don’t get me started on radio DJs who do it, I have to turn the radio off….. (sigh)

Sorry, my satire radar is off and I can't work out if you are taking the piss. Are you suggesting that th-fronting, a dialect feature of Cockney since the mid 19th century, is a new phenomenon in London accents?

beyourownchampion · 13/04/2024 08:06

What REALLY gets my goat is how most young teenagers (and a lot of teachers can’t pronounce words correctly). I work in a secondary school and it’s so apparent spoken English has got very lazy…

eg

I fink instead of think (I want to scream there is a TH sound not a F sound!!!)

Free instead of THREE

Fought instead of THOUGHT

etc. I’ve noticed a lot of Londoners do this in particular…. Why? and don’t get me started on radio DJs who do it, I have to turn the radio off….. (sigh)

Myusernameisrubbish · 12/04/2024 23:32

hobocock · 10/04/2024 12:08

People writing loose when they mean lose drives me crazy.

I also can't bear the overuse of the word would when describe activities in the past. Every fucking past tense verb used with would instead of just the simple past....

Similarly, a conditional sentence such as "If we would have gone to the airport earlier we wouldn't have missed the flight", instead of "If we had gone to the airport earlier we wouldn't have missed the flight". You don't need fucking would in both parts of that sentence. Fucking hell. Fuck's sake.
I need to calm down!

I don't know why I have started to notice would everywhere but it is really ever present, both in speech and written texts. Why the fuck is it appearing all the time?

It's far worse than bought and brought (though they drive me mad too).

Maybe previously, you couldn't see the would for the trees

Mummytotheboy · 12/04/2024 22:56

But unrelated but the one that annoys me is gifted. "I like your necklace" "oh thankyou I was gifted it" it makes me want to knock my own teeth out!!! The correct response would be "thankyou, it was a gift"!!!

Wilop · 12/04/2024 15:54

marshmallowfinder · 12/04/2024 15:49

An haitch? Do you mean a haitch or an aitch?

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Haitch

marshmallowfinder · 12/04/2024 15:49

Wilop · 11/04/2024 21:10

I’m an haitch person, scottish catholic and family all say it that way too.

An haitch? Do you mean a haitch or an aitch?

BingoMarieHeeler · 12/04/2024 11:18

Just seen ’poured’ instead of ‘pored’ too 🫤 As in ‘we poured[sic] over our options’

Which reminds me of people saying ‘I’m balling my eyes out’ or ‘I balled!’…….. brings to mind gouging one’s eyes out with a melon baller. Does make sense though if you are picturing rubbing your eyes with a fist.

belleager · 12/04/2024 10:12

sashh · 12/04/2024 04:35

It's the same wherever children have been taught by Irish nuns. At least in the UK that is. Not sure about Australia or the US.

It will be interesting to see if it continues now there are fewer Irish nuns teaching these days.

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Fortunately for haitch-lovers everywhere, those Irish nuns took Manhattan

As an Irish child of the 1980s I didn't learn my alphabet from nuns. Not many did even then.

I learned it from Sesame Street. They are continuing the good work today.

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grinandslothit · 12/04/2024 04:47

Chester draw

Loose lose

sashh · 12/04/2024 04:35

BlueBilledBeatboxingBird · 11/04/2024 21:12

Wondering if the same might apply to sectarian areas of Scotland 🤷🏻‍♀️

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It's the same wherever children have been taught by Irish nuns. At least in the UK that is. Not sure about Australia or the US.

It will be interesting to see if it continues now there are fewer Irish nuns teaching these days.

ColleenDonaghy · 11/04/2024 21:13

BlueBilledBeatboxingBird · 11/04/2024 21:12

Wondering if the same might apply to sectarian areas of Scotland 🤷🏻‍♀️

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I'd assume so but don't know for sure.

BlueBilledBeatboxingBird · 11/04/2024 21:12

ColleenDonaghy · 11/04/2024 21:01

Yes, it is in NI. Aitch = British/unionist/Protestant, haitch = Irish/nationalist/Catholic.

In Ireland it's just haitch across the board.

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Wondering if the same might apply to sectarian areas of Scotland 🤷🏻‍♀️

Wilop · 11/04/2024 21:10

I’m an haitch person, scottish catholic and family all say it that way too.

trainboundfornowhere · 11/04/2024 21:04

My Scottish unionist husband, father and in laws like most of if not all Rangers fans say aitch not haitch. They are from Ayrshire, West Lothian and Edinburgh.

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