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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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MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 09/04/2024 10:09

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I remember the controversy that time when the Queen was filmed wringing a pheasant's neck - and the many people mischievously suggesting that she'd actually wrung a peasant's neck Grin

judgementfail · 09/04/2024 10:05

Sneak peak
Dinning table
Borders when they mean boarders
boarders when they mean borders
Slamming on the 'breaks'

ArthnoldManacatsaman · 09/04/2024 10:03

PurplePim · 08/04/2024 22:40

I know someone who pronounces it 'covvid' with a short 'o' as in orange. I wish someone had corrected her 4 years ago too (I didn't know her then).

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I have come across quite a few people who pronounce it ‘covvid’. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but they are all retired doctors 🤔

(Love your username btw. It reminds me of my late mother who was tickled by the phrase when she heard it used on TV - I think The Box of Delights? - and would use it frequently forever after)

dickdarstardlymuttley · 09/04/2024 10:02

It's such a challenge being neurotypical Grin

Wilop · 09/04/2024 09:57

BeakyPIinders · 09/04/2024 09:55

It's not the written word though is it? It's the spoken word here we are moaning about

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people are moaning about both.

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GentleButter · 09/04/2024 09:56

BeakyPIinders · 09/04/2024 09:55

It's not the written word though is it? It's the spoken word here we are moaning about

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Precisely.

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BeakyPIinders · 09/04/2024 09:55

TinkerTiger · 09/04/2024 09:47

I do find it hard to believe that in this day and age there are people who still don't understand conditions like dyslexia and how they affect people daily.

It isn't simply 'muddling up letters when reading'.

It's not the written word though is it? It's the spoken word here we are moaning about

BeakyPIinders · 09/04/2024 09:50

Arks for ask. Kill me
Can you borrow me a tenner. Who shall I borrow it from then?
A packet of crisp. Why, is there only one crisp in the packet?
Loose for lose. Gahhhhhh

TinkerTiger · 09/04/2024 09:47

I do find it hard to believe that in this day and age there are people who still don't understand conditions like dyslexia and how they affect people daily.

It isn't simply 'muddling up letters when reading'.

KeinLiebeslied54321 · 09/04/2024 09:43

I said YABU because I feel that there's enough stresses in this world without adding 'how others cannot use language in the correct manner' to the list!

ApplesinmyPocket · 09/04/2024 09:42

EricHebbornInItaly · 09/04/2024 07:44

Sat and sitting. “I was sat next to her”. 🤮

This one drives me insane and it's EVERYWHERE. All newspapers use it now, and I've just read three novels one after another where it was dropped in at every opportunity. It's all over Mumsnet. I think people honestly don't realise it's not just incorrect but nonsensical and the more it gets repeated, the more it gets 'burned in'.

'I was sat next to her.' 'He was stood beside me'. AAARGH! in fact, if you're really opposed to 'sitting' or 'standing', why not just drop the verb altogether? I was next to her. He was beside me.

I have an Austrian friend who is fluent in English and he never makes this mistake, nor many of the others mentioned here. I'm always telling him he speaks English better than English people do. He can do apostrophes too - even the 'trickier' ones. It's a miracle 😩

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 09/04/2024 09:21

‘Bare with me…’ is another that produces a silent scream here.

Ditto muddling break/brake, kerb/curb, and of course the endless your/you’re.
Anyone typing ‘ect’ for ‘etc’ can go straight in the naughty corner, too.

Oneearringlost · 09/04/2024 09:16

GentleButter · 09/04/2024 09:10

Why do you despise them?
They are trying to teach the correct way of using our language. It's not a bad thing.

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Hang on GentleButter,
Wasn't it you who used the word 'hate' people?

2mummies1baby · 09/04/2024 09:13

GentleButter · 09/04/2024 09:10

Why do you despise them?
They are trying to teach the correct way of using our language. It's not a bad thing.

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She's explained why she despises them! It's right there in her second sentence!

AngeloMysterioso · 09/04/2024 09:13

There’s a woman whose YouTube tutorials I watch for my hobby, who says eck cetera. I watch them on mute now.

2mummies1baby · 09/04/2024 09:10

GentleButter · 09/04/2024 09:08

That was the autocorrect on my phone.
I'd used the word pleural in a text to a colleague earlier in the day and my phone remembered it and switched plural to pleural when I posted my message here last night.

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Not a fan of reading over your comments before posting? It would have autocorrected straight after you typed it, not as you posted it.

And what's your excuse for your constant errors when punctuating speech?

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GentleButter · 09/04/2024 09:10

Saymyname28 · 09/04/2024 09:03

I absolutely despise people correcting other adults pronunciations or grammar "don't you mean ..........." yeah obviously you knew that so why stop the conversation. Just wipes of smug arrogance and a complete inability to understand that not everyone finds language as easy as you. I'm autisic and dyslexic, was non verbal as a child, the fact I'm having a conversation with you is a fucking achievement and battle but oh my I'm foucking sorry for missing an R out of a word.

Why do you despise them?
They are trying to teach the correct way of using our language. It's not a bad thing.

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unnumber · 09/04/2024 09:08

I'm glad you manage not to scream.

You might come across as overwought, doing that at meetings Wink

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GentleButter · 09/04/2024 09:08

2mummies1baby · 09/04/2024 08:58

Oh, and when they can't use the correct 'plural'.

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That was the autocorrect on my phone.
I'd used the word pleural in a text to a colleague earlier in the day and my phone remembered it and switched plural to pleural when I posted my message here last night.

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Saymyname28 · 09/04/2024 09:03

I absolutely despise people correcting other adults pronunciations or grammar "don't you mean ..........." yeah obviously you knew that so why stop the conversation. Just wipes of smug arrogance and a complete inability to understand that not everyone finds language as easy as you. I'm autisic and dyslexic, was non verbal as a child, the fact I'm having a conversation with you is a fucking achievement and battle but oh my I'm foucking sorry for missing an R out of a word.

Macaroni46 · 09/04/2024 09:01

Your and you're.

It's really not that hard.

2mummies1baby · 09/04/2024 08:58

GentleButter · 08/04/2024 22:23

Oh God this is so true.
I see this all the time too!
I work in a professional setting and there are signs up at work saying "This way to the toilet's". I feel like writing across it "The toilet's what?" And another sign saying "In case of emergency's". When I saw this I lost the will to live. Never mind the emergency. Just spell the bloody word correctly.
I see it all the time outside of work to. An apostrophe instead of a pleural spelling.
What is going on with these people?

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Oh, and when they can't use the correct 'plural'.

Biker47 · 09/04/2024 08:57

I've never seen anyone say or write bought instead of brought, it's always the other way round, which does boil my piss.

2mummies1baby · 09/04/2024 08:56

Personally, I hate it when someone is this pedantic yet can't punctuate speech accurately.

WillSmIth56 · 09/04/2024 08:54

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