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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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sashh · 09/04/2024 06:50

LaCerbiatta · 08/04/2024 22:15

All of these, but lately people being unable to turn a word plural without using an apostrophe drives me mad. How??

"My daughter did her GCSE's." Her GCSE's what???? Why do people not know how to pluralise a word?? Is it not the most basic thing??

I think this depends on age. A bit like whether you write gaol or jail.

It was taught in schools to use an apostrophe as GCSE is an initialisation of general certificate of education so you are initialising it and also contracting it. So I was taught to use an apostrophe.

Actually I wasn't because they had not been thought of when I was at school. I was taught to do it with O'Levels as a contraction of Ordinary Levels.

I was also taught to indent paragraphs and to put a full stop between initialisations so G.C.S.E's.

Now it is common to leave a line or two between paragraphs without indentation.

I was also taught not to use excessive punctuation s no double question marks.

Gingernurt88 · 09/04/2024 06:31

Lose and loose for me

I get lose sounds phonetically as loose, but seems extremely common nowadays.

SquashPenguin · 09/04/2024 06:31

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 08/04/2024 21:58

Present and presant

Confused There's no such word as 'presant'.

I’m glad someone else has noticed this, I thought it was hilarious 😆

InsomniacA · 09/04/2024 06:28

ThursdayTomorrow · 08/04/2024 21:44

Present and presant
Affect and effect

Presant?

margolyes · 09/04/2024 06:19

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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No doubt I am way too late, but its "plural" not "pleural". Sorry OP.

marshmallowfinder · 09/04/2024 06:08

VerinMathwin · 08/04/2024 22:41

I'm bias instead of biased.

Also I'm chill. You mean CHILLED.

marshmallowfinder · 09/04/2024 06:03

Berlinlover · 08/04/2024 22:05

The majority of people on Mumsnet can’t tell the difference between loose and lose. When I pointed this out a few days ago my post got deleted.

As soon as I'm reading a post with loose instead of lose, I immediately stop and hide/delete it. It's an instant, visceral reaction.

marshmallowfinder · 09/04/2024 06:00

I am in complete agreement, OP. I usually hear brought instead of bought though, rather than the other way round. Also, I've noticed it more when reading online reviews. "I brought this a month ago and really like it..." I long with every fibre of my being, to reply with, "do you mean BOUGHT?" AAAAAGGHHHH.

Catsmere · 09/04/2024 04:17

Mumtobabyhavoc · 09/04/2024 00:53

It is likely a Canadianism...😉

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😄

SOxon · 09/04/2024 03:12

CeliaCanth · 08/04/2024 23:01

Shoes with “heals”, cars with “breaks” and people being given “free rein” or “lead” to believe things are all too frequently seen… Oh and eyeshadow “pallets”.

free rein is correct

LongLaneLove · 09/04/2024 02:54

SeismicSalad · 08/04/2024 22:53

Really?! Which region?

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I was going to type this - where is borrow/lend a regional thing? Genuinely interested!

Monty27 · 09/04/2024 02:51

DoormatBob · 08/04/2024 21:46

I have never seen this. Always the other way around though.

Oh the irony. Top MN 😀

SOxon · 09/04/2024 02:49

HappiestSleeping · 08/04/2024 22:07

You do all know that there is a Pedants' Corner board specifically for this sort of thing?

Don't tell everyone though 😉

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this is better than Pedants Corner - they are all pedants over there

SOxon · 09/04/2024 02:48

Mademetoxic · 08/04/2024 22:09

When people who say baby instead of the baby.
Eg: 'how is baby today?'

even ‘ baby’ is preferable to the nauseating ‘bubba’ (makes me want to throw up)

my teeth grinder is ‘discrete’ used as an alternative form of ‘discreet,’ when it is a homophone with a different meaning

BOOTS52PollyPrissyPants · 09/04/2024 02:37

I just remembered how my son used to say '2 peas in a pond' haha instead of 2 peas in a pod' and he used to call Robbie Williams 'Wobbly Williams' makes me laugh to think of it now as he was so small then.

BOOTS52PollyPrissyPants · 09/04/2024 02:35

The one that annoys me the most but usually americans who say it is
'I could care less' when it should be I couldn't care less' does my freaking head in.

nothingsforgotten · 09/04/2024 02:19

I agree it's annoying, but your reaction is totally OTT, so YABU in my opinion.

And you think your husband is insufferable???? Confused

Abitofalark · 09/04/2024 01:51

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 08/04/2024 23:06

Even Neil Diamond sings 'brang' in his song 'Play Me' - presumably because it makes it rhyme; but it also makes it WRONG!!

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That makes it WRANG!!

That's such a good song I would forgive Diamond, if he needed it, which he didn't. It's poetic licence.

This thread has had some good ones, not least the vehemence of your 'hate' and I gave myself a pain from laughing at Peter bread and brung. The bought / brought pronunciation seems to be a London peculiarity. It's how some Londoners were brung up speaking, which they keep as their natural speech, I suppose.

I was wondering if maybe they are saying the r but in such a way that it's b'ought with the r elided or suppressed so the listener thinks the speaker is saying bought, past tense of buy, when in fact they are not. But then confusion arises with I went to the shop and brought a new lawn mower, meaning bought, the past tense of buy. The suppressed r has mysteriously migrated to a different context and is now the errant r.

Noyesnoyes · 09/04/2024 01:30

HundredMilesAnHour · 08/04/2024 21:47

Almost as bad as people who seem incapable of understanding the difference between borrow and lend.

Oh yes! 🤦‍♀️

BobbyBiscuits · 09/04/2024 01:28

I think it's difficult to tell with most people's accent if they say it, but if it's written it does make people look kind of dumb.
The ones that annoy me are 'crutch' for 'crotch' and this one is a bit obscure, but people who try and be posh when talking about a restaurant. They say 'the food was left on the passe' rather than pass. Like the food was left being incredibly old fashioned in french?! Hyacinth Bucket would choke on her chorizo!

ChestaDroors · 09/04/2024 01:23

@GentleButter pleural OP? As in relating to the serous membranes lining the thorax and enveloping the lungs?

Princesssuperstar · 09/04/2024 01:18

When people ask for an 'expresso' i feel like screaming 'it's a bloody espresso you twit'

Really annoys me more than it should

Windchiming · 09/04/2024 01:05

MiffedandMiserable · 08/04/2024 22:02

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

One peter bread please 😄

frenchfancy81 · 09/04/2024 01:02

ThursdayTomorrow · 08/04/2024 21:44

Present and presant
Affect and effect

Eh? Presant?!

Mumtobabyhavoc · 09/04/2024 00:58

Mumtobabyhavoc · 09/04/2024 00:53

It is likely a Canadianism...😉

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I stand corrected: American and British English...
(I guess we've adopted it?)

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