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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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MinervaMcGonagallsCat · 09/04/2024 08:51

Amazingly - there are different dialects and colloquialism throughout the UK.

And many of us are typing on devices that use autocorrect.

Some people don't speak English as their first language.

Others are dyslexic.

Some received a poor education.

But let's hate them all and sneer at them.

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 09/04/2024 08:43

This thread is hilarious. So many wannabe pedants getting their own posts wrong!
I bet the OP wishes they never bought it up.

HiddenLaundry · 09/04/2024 08:43

TheCheekyKoala · 08/04/2024 22:59

If only my life was so boring that something as minor as this bothered me.

Clever people can be bothered by many things simultaneously. It’s a curse! I would love to be ignorant of all these errors. I do wish I were more like you. Genuinely (not generally).

WillSmIth56 · 09/04/2024 08:39

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treacledan71 · 09/04/2024 08:39

I work with someone, who is about 20 years younger than me that I feel looks down on me, as I don't have a degree!. He has no commonsense . He keeps putting stationary when asking me to order things. One day I said you know its stationery don't you? Think envelope as "e". Totally ignored me so just let him get on with it now. Saw he put it in an email to someone quite high. I know my typing is not great on here but workwise it is. I have noticed lots of people on LinkedIn talk the talk but their grammar is terrible. No punctuation and using and at the beginning of a sentence. Brought and bought. My tip for that is think bring so it's brought with the R.

HiddenLaundry · 09/04/2024 08:37

Newrumpus · 09/04/2024 08:18

One I saw on here recently which must have been misheard is ‘It swings on roundabouts’ instead of ‘It’s swings and roundabouts’ when comparing things.

There are so many like that!
I saw, ‘to all intensive purposes’.

People must learn it one way and then never realise it is wrong. Like the well known ‘rest bite’.

VampireWeekday · 09/04/2024 08:37

Why does it bother you so much? It seems like such an exaggerated response to something that makes no difference. It would be obvious from the context which one they mean. I never make this mistake in writing but in my accent and talking quickly, brought sometimes sounds like bought. Don't really understand how it affects you at all.

WillSmIth56 · 09/04/2024 08:36

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MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 09/04/2024 08:34

tiredandabitfat · 09/04/2024 08:31

What is theatre with a big A? theAtre? I don't get it?

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Yes, it's when people pronounce it thee-A-tuh, rather than the more usual THEE-uh-tuh.

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 09/04/2024 08:32

Zyq · 09/04/2024 08:19

People seem to struggle an awful lot with bear and bare. I'm constantly seeing something like "Grin and bare it" which conjures up some fairly bizarre pictures.

Yes, so many people don't actually seem to realise that they've just requested that you join them in getting naked, when they say "Bare with me" !

tiredandabitfat · 09/04/2024 08:31

StormingNorman · 08/04/2024 22:07

I was going to call you all a bunch of snobs and then remembered how theatre with a big A makes my stomach turn.

😂🙃😂🙃

What is theatre with a big A? theAtre? I don't get it?

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 09/04/2024 08:30

And I knew someone who would explain their sickness absence with "I had a viral"

That makes me think of Still Game, where Jack & Victor are making videos for YouTube - and they talk about having 'gone virile' when they get 4 views!

HiddenLaundry · 09/04/2024 08:30

TheCheekyKoala · 08/04/2024 23:21

I think they must be the same people that moan about others calling all school holidays half term 😂 instead of summer holidays, Easter break.

I always read it and think honestly who gives a fuck.

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Calling all school holidays ‘half-term’ is so so stupid! I do feel disappointed with the literacy in this country.

tiredandabitfat · 09/04/2024 08:28

ThursdayTomorrow · 08/04/2024 21:44

Present and presant
Affect and effect

Presant is not a word though?

HiddenLaundry · 09/04/2024 08:24

Easipeelerie · 08/04/2024 23:03

I used to have a friend who said adverse for averse and it really irrationally irritated me - “I’m not adverse to it”. It’s the fact they recognise the word, sort of, but they don’t know what the word actually means.
She also used to say chorritzo for chorizo and all the usual things people, get wrong.

Yep. ‘Adverse’ being used instead of ‘averse’ is something that really irritates me. Top of the list for me will always be ‘could of’ etc. If someone writes that, I stop engaging with them. I have had to type this three times as my phone keeps correcting to ‘could have’. Well done to my phone.

Ponoka7 · 09/04/2024 08:22

Zyq · 09/04/2024 08:18

Of course it isn't. "Text" as a verb is a new term, and it must follow standard rules which require adding "ed" in the past tense. Would you say "I have test the water" rather than "tested"?

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Text was a new verb. If people prefer to not follow old rules for new words, then both becomes acceptable. If the same word is being used by different nationalities, then it becomes even more valid.

Zyq · 09/04/2024 08:19

People seem to struggle an awful lot with bear and bare. I'm constantly seeing something like "Grin and bare it" which conjures up some fairly bizarre pictures.

catonmyback · 09/04/2024 08:18

Breath and breathe

Just relax and breath hun !

Ponoka7 · 09/04/2024 08:18

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 08/04/2024 22:42

@GentleButter there are loads of stupid people around who use words without understanding the meaning of said words! "can you borrow me a tent?" wtf does that mean? "I am looking for a chester draws" what the hell?? and the up and coming one which is beginning to creep through everywhere is "he was sat" !!!! absolutely dreadful lazy use of english language. where are yous going? is that even a bloody word?

That's regional dialect. Personally like the difference in regional use of words. It makes films, programmes etc more interesting, the rich tapestry of life and all that.

Newrumpus · 09/04/2024 08:18

One I saw on here recently which must have been misheard is ‘It swings on roundabouts’ instead of ‘It’s swings and roundabouts’ when comparing things.

Zyq · 09/04/2024 08:18

HunterHearstHelmsley · 09/04/2024 07:44

Noooo!! I HATE it when people say "texted". It sounds wrong, it's just text.

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Of course it isn't. "Text" as a verb is a new term, and it must follow standard rules which require adding "ed" in the past tense. Would you say "I have test the water" rather than "tested"?

Blackcats7 · 09/04/2024 08:15

My blood boils when people use itch and scratch the wrong way
”I itched my back”
Yuck, yuck, yuck

Zyq · 09/04/2024 08:15

Make noise instead of make a noise.

DilemmaDelilah · 09/04/2024 08:14

All of these things make me cringe. In particular I hate the use of the incorrect to/too/two and loose/lose. Also the correct use of less/fewer was drummed into me as a child (less where it is part of a bigger entity, fewer where there are individual items. Less apple pie, fewer apples)

My DH is from, originally, a very working class area of Kent and I know some of the things he says are regional - such as the use of 'indoors' rather than at home. So instead of saying he wants to go home, he will say he wants to go indoors, or we could be at a friends house and he will say he has left his specs indoors and then be confused when I am wondering why he doesn't just get them.
He does also have a problem with the word prostate though and tends to say prostrate. I'm guessing that is because prostate is not a word that is used much outside a medical conversation whereas prostate can be (although it probably isnt) used in many more contexts.

Zyq · 09/04/2024 08:14

CoffeeAndEnnui · 08/04/2024 22:00

His in place of he's is the one I see at least once a week on my feed. "His done so well on his mocks!" actually hurt my mind because how can you use something correctly and incorrectly in the same sentence?! Baffling.

That one really annoys me, too. Also the other way round - as in "His done so well on he's mocks". They wouldn't do it with she/her, so WTF?

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