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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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Newrumpus · 09/04/2024 08:13

I only ever see on here, thankfully rarely: ‘Husband and I’s plan is to …’ I think this has replaced the misuse of ‘myself’. I find it even worse.

baroqueandblue · 09/04/2024 08:13

Apologies if this has been mentioned. Not got enough time to read beyond third page of the thread just now, but had to contribute!

It both irritates and amuses me when I hear, for example, "We're going Aldis" or "He's gone Spain" 😄

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

Winnading · 09/04/2024 08:07

PTSDBarbiegirl · 08/04/2024 22:38

I was in the field and fell on the floor.
NO, YOU FELL ON THE GROUND!
You were in the kitchen and fell on the floor, out in the garden you fell again on the ground...

That is a lot of falling, maybe when one is falling a lot one should see a dr.

On a related note, where is the line between I fell and I had a fall?

With one phrase you are still young and got up and carried on, with the other you are bedridden for weeks, maybe even in hospital.

Asking for a friend because just last week I had a fall and cracked a rib, where even a year ago I would have said I fell.

Fuck, I feel super old. And in pain.

VestibuleVirgin · 09/04/2024 08:02

Magdalen College
Mainwaring

VestibuleVirgin · 09/04/2024 08:01

Wait staff/list/line
Its waiting staff, a waiting list, etc

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 09/04/2024 08:00

Omg another one I’m seeing alllll the time on instagram is peak instead of peek. SNEAK PEEK. They’re literally different words so why is it hard?

It's hard because they sound exactly the same. Some people are good at remembering this kind of thing, some people are not. We all have things we aren't so good at. I'm amazing at spelling, but I am rubbish with numbers and have zero sense of direction or ability to remember the way to anywhere.

VestibuleVirgin · 09/04/2024 07:59

Tow the line...
where to?

BingoMarieHeeler · 09/04/2024 07:57

Omg another one I’m seeing alllll the time on instagram is peak instead of peek. SNEAK PEEK. They’re literally different words so why is it hard?

VestibuleVirgin · 09/04/2024 07:56

Itsokish · 08/04/2024 22:51

HNRTFT but I can cope with bought instead of brought…toilet is my biggest cringe/ vomit…loo or lavatory please!

Lavatory only!

VestibuleVirgin · 09/04/2024 07:53

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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No it isn't
You send a text
You have therefore texted

VestibuleVirgin · 09/04/2024 07:52

BettyShagter · 08/04/2024 22:25

Yes, let's pretend it did.

Either way, ignoring poor spelling and grammar by strangers on the internet (unless you genuinely can't understand them), is the adult thing to do.

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But that perpetuates the incorrect. Better that mistakes be pointed out while on an anonymous forum than in a meeting at work

HunterHearstHelmsley · 09/04/2024 07:45

oldgreysquirreltest · 09/04/2024 07:11

I read on here recently a post from someone who was going to lend some money from the bank Shock I had to close the app and walk away!

Quite often in the West Midlands (particularly black country), borrow and lend are used interchangeably.

Can you borrow me a fiver? Etc.

EricHebbornInItaly · 09/04/2024 07:44

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

HunterHearstHelmsley · 09/04/2024 07:44

TreesAndSandAndWaves · 08/04/2024 21:44

I don’t think I have ever heard someone say that. At risk of reaching peak MN … could it be a regional thing?

My pet hate is when people use “text” instead of “texted” for past tense e.g. “I text her yesterday but she didn’t answer”.

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

EnjoythemoneyJane · 09/04/2024 07:42

The almost ubiquitous replacement of ‘purposely’ with ‘purposefully’. They are not interchangeable; they don’t both mean ‘on purpose’, which is usually the context.

Also ‘hubby’ - fucking awful, but I don’t really know why it winds me up so much 😂

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GentleButter · 09/04/2024 07:15

A few people have picked up on me typing 'pleural'. I noticed this too about half an hour after I posted and I actually laughed at the irony! I noticed too late to use the edit function on here. My phone changed plural to pleural without me noticing as I was texting speedily and posted without proof reading. My phone saves words I've recently used, and earlier in the day I had texted the word pleural to a colleague as I am a medical practitioner. So when I typed plural, it automatically changed to pleural! Even now in this post, I'm having to go back and edit it because my phone is switching it to pleural.
I suppose this could happen when people use their phones to type certain words in their messages. Phones do change words as part of autocorrect. Although my post was about people who say bought instead of brought, not about their spelling of it.
I'd like to address the poster who picked me up on saying my husband argues 'at' me, instead of 'with' me, about him saying bought instead of brought. I very deliberately used the word 'at'. To say 'my husband argues with me' would imply that we both argue with each other, but this is not what happens. I simply correct him in a calm and lighthearted way and in response my husband argues at me, meaning he starts arguing about it but I do not argue back at him. I remain calm and I don't engage in arguing about this. So he very much argues at me.

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HappiestSleeping · 09/04/2024 07:12

oldgreysquirreltest · 09/04/2024 07:11

I read on here recently a post from someone who was going to lend some money from the bank Shock I had to close the app and walk away!

I saw that one too. 🤦‍♂️

oldgreysquirreltest · 09/04/2024 07:11

I read on here recently a post from someone who was going to lend some money from the bank Shock I had to close the app and walk away!

renthead · 09/04/2024 07:08

The one that gave me the rage this week was someone saying they were "mortified" when they actually meant "horrified"... and that person was DH Shock Luckily he realised what he had done and corrected himself, otherwise I'd be questioning everything about us.

Scottishshortbread11877 · 09/04/2024 07:02

SabreIsMyFave · 08/04/2024 21:59

Some people say tennant instead of tenant. Drives me potty! And 'alot' instead of 'a lot.'

How can you tell if their saying 'a lot' or 'alot'. I would only notice when written, not when someone is saying it!

Avoidingsleep · 09/04/2024 06:59

MiffedandMiserable · 08/04/2024 22:02

My mum says Peter bread instead of pita bread. Makes me want to claw my ears off.

Is your Mum American?

landscapepainter · 09/04/2024 06:58

GentleButter · 08/04/2024 22:12

Why do you struggle??

Present tense: Buy
Past tense: Bought

Present tense: Bring
Past tense: Brought

It hurts my head that people get this confused.

It's
So
Easy.

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Dyslexia maybe?

It does grate on me a bit too OP but don't judge people. They are very similar looking/ sounding words.

VestibuleVirgin · 09/04/2024 06:57

GentleButter · 08/04/2024 21:47

You are lucky.
I hear it all the time. I drives me demented.
I don't understand why people don't want to make any sense when they speak.

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You'll get flamed with the following phrases;

Spelling ang grammar are no longer important

Language evolves (to the point of being non-sensical, apparently)

English may not be their 1st language (even though many foreigners speak better English than natives)

Some developmental trait such as autism, adhd is in play

It's like screaming in space, except the people who do hear you scream are those who want to argue

Avoidingsleep · 09/04/2024 06:55

Urgh, the ones that irk me the most are:-

“I done it”
”We won them” (as in beating someone, not winning trophies or goldfish)
”will you borrow me a…”

BlueThursday · 09/04/2024 06:54

My daughter has started the west of Scotland use of “how” instead of “why” 🤬