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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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Densol · 09/04/2024 00:57

Have you had your blood pressure checked recently ?

Mumtobabyhavoc · 09/04/2024 00:53

Catsmere · 08/04/2024 23:42

Never heard that one - it would make me think of a show not starring John Thaw. 😄

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It is likely a Canadianism...😉

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 09/04/2024 00:51

I suppose, technically, it's not wrong to say "I brought it from New Look" - if you take it as a given that, being a shop, anything brought from them would first have been purchased as a matter of course.

But NEVER 'brought it AT New Look'!

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 09/04/2024 00:47

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 08/04/2024 23:51

Exactly.

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You're both not unboring enough that you found anything better to click on, though!

LightDrizzle · 09/04/2024 00:44

I’ll raise you “of” used instead of the auxiliary verb “have”: I could of told her.

Also using “done” when the preterite “did” should be used. It’s really common on this site: I told her I would do it but then she done it herself.

Scarletttulips · 09/04/2024 00:23

I saw this on a post recently veiled fret…. Made me anxious 😬

MistyGreenAndBlue · 09/04/2024 00:06

Surprised no one has posted that "language evolves" yet. Usually get that one about three posts in on these threads.
The one that has been driving me half mad lately on FB is the constant referral to abbreviated decades as 80's or 70's etc.
It's NOT a possessive. It's a plural - the apostrophe belongs in the place where the missing characters would be. Like so -
'80s
I've even seen this abomination 1980's
Arrrgh!
And if you do need to use a plural as a possessive the apostrophe goes AFTER the s. So it would be -
'80s'

I feel better now 😂

peloton2024 · 09/04/2024 00:01

@LoopyLooooo it wouldn't be so bad if I didn't make appointments at work!
I have swapped to saying four thirty now as I can't be relied on to actually say half past and my boss mocks me Blush "could you be any more Bolton sometimes" Hmm

LoopyLooooo · 08/04/2024 23:59

peloton2024 · 08/04/2024 23:43

I say haf past instead of half past and I have to try really hard to not do it
Think that's my accent/area though as my relatives do it too Blush

We say "Harf passed kiss me arse, gettin on for nearly" 🤣🤣

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 08/04/2024 23:59

nimski · 08/04/2024 21:43

I have a friend who does it the other way round and says 'I brought this top at the new shop in town' drives me nuts!

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I was Gona say..the only time I've heard it incorrectly is in this way. Brought instead of bought!

MuseumAssistant · 08/04/2024 23:56

I was born to Irish parents who had very interesting grammar to say the least 🤣

But, I also went to a bog standard local school in the 70s and 80s and all the teachers spoke fairly well and would pull us up on our grammar if they needed to.

Fast forward to now and I work in a museum where we have schools come to visit on a daily basis. I've noticed that so many teachers and TAs are saying things like, "Oh yeah I seen that over there" or "Was you talkin when you was told not to?"

Don't get me wrong I'm not blaming the school staff (before I get lynched!) but it doesn't help, especially if the kids (which many do) come from a home where English isn't the first language.

They can't always depend on their teachers/TAs to set an example.

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 08/04/2024 23:51

TheCheekyKoala · 08/04/2024 22:59

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

Exactly.

JudgeJ · 08/04/2024 23:44

HundredMilesAnHour · 08/04/2024 22:56

I'm going to hope that "argues AT me" is a typo. 😂

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In the same way we can say 'talks at me' to imply a certain aggression then 'argues at me' could give the same feeling of how the argument was conducted, even though it isn't strictly speaking correct.

peloton2024 · 08/04/2024 23:43

I say haf past instead of half past and I have to try really hard to not do it
Think that's my accent/area though as my relatives do it too Blush

Catsmere · 08/04/2024 23:42

Mumtobabyhavoc · 08/04/2024 23:39

Or, "un-thaw." As in, "I took it out of the freezer and placed it on the counter so it would 'un-thaw'.

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Never heard that one - it would make me think of a show not starring John Thaw. 😄

DrCoconut · 08/04/2024 23:41

Also pita vs Peter. I remember back in the 80s when pita was considered posh foreign food. People would pronounce it Peter (no r for those with a rhotic accent). Pita (rhyming with non rhotic bitter) seems to be a more modern pronunciation. Could be regional, I don't know.

JudgeJ · 08/04/2024 23:40

DawnBreaks · 08/04/2024 23:18

My dear late mil used to say sustiificate instead of certificate. 😆

My late father would talk about 'the new shopping prestinct' he would never accept that there was only one t in precinct.

Catsmere · 08/04/2024 23:40

JudgeJ · 08/04/2024 23:36

I've posted this before but it's worth further dissemination! The loathed head of OFSTED was on Radio 4 years ago decrying standards in the teaching of English and he said 'Me and (someone else) were told............ ' , I prayed silently for the interviewer to pick him up on that but sadly he didn't. Mr Humphries, you let us all down.

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"I" when it should be "me" always bugs me. Tony Robinson was forever saying things like "Phil was talking to Mick and I" and it drove me round the twist.

Not as much as his "begs the question" though. No, Tony, it raises the question, or poses the question. That's not what begs the question means at all. It's almost the opposite!

Mumtobabyhavoc · 08/04/2024 23:39

Mumtobabyhavoc · 08/04/2024 23:24

Hadn't heard that OP, but I become murderous when someone says, "I seen..."

Or, "un-thaw." As in, "I took it out of the freezer and placed it on the counter so it would 'un-thaw'.

RallySooney · 08/04/2024 23:39

Ashume and pacific.

NO!

Assume and specific.

JudgeJ · 08/04/2024 23:38

Brought used interchangeably with bought is regional, definitely a Midlands thing.

In an exam it would be considered wrong though, the examiner doesn't know from where the scripts originate.

Catsmere · 08/04/2024 23:36

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 08/04/2024 23:32

'Different TO' always hugely annoys me. You'd never say "It differs TO that", so why say "It's different TO" rather than from?

That just brought back the one we were taught at school - never say "different than". (Australian primary school in the early 70s).

JudgeJ · 08/04/2024 23:36

Seymour5 · 08/04/2024 23:03

Me too. Lead instead of led. Prostrate instead of prostate. And ‘me and my friend’ instead of ‘my friend and I’. Even where using ‘me’ is correct, it shouldn’t come first.

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I've posted this before but it's worth further dissemination! The loathed head of OFSTED was on Radio 4 years ago decrying standards in the teaching of English and he said 'Me and (someone else) were told............ ' , I prayed silently for the interviewer to pick him up on that but sadly he didn't. Mr Humphries, you let us all down.

YaMuvva · 08/04/2024 23:34

Kta7 · 08/04/2024 22:54

Worse surely? 😉

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🤣🤣🤣🤣 fair one!

Catsmere · 08/04/2024 23:33

PinkTonic · 08/04/2024 23:01

And the heals on their shoes

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Aargh yes!

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