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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 · 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?

NotAVampire · 08/04/2024 23:31

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

Hand on heart it’s the most irritating thing about living here as an incomer. Every time I hear another “I brought this ….” another bit of my soul dies. I despise it beyond measure.

Isittimeformynapyet · 08/04/2024 23:30

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.

DrCoconut · 08/04/2024 23:27

@scruffydogstinks is material a generation thing? Even though it doesn't make sense. My grandma's age group all said it.

Mumtobabyhavoc · 08/04/2024 23:24

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

TheFireflies · 08/04/2024 23:23

cfmtb · 08/04/2024 22:13

My manager says 'pacific' instead of 'specific' and it absolutely makes me grit my teeth every single time.
Really doesn't help she says it in most conversations, probably pacificially to grind my gears 😜

I work in the family courts and there’s a solicitor who says “pacific” instead of “specific” except when making an application for a Specific Issue Order, the existence of which you’d think might give her a clue about the correct word. Yet even though she understands it’s a “Specific Issue Order” she will still talk in court about the pacific aspects that her client is seeking.

drives me potty to listen to it.

Moveoverdarlin · 08/04/2024 23:22

Youmusthavebeentoacapulco · 08/04/2024 22:35

I have a foreign student staying with me . She came in the other day and told me the dog had ‘gone potty in the garden’. ‘Oh god, what’s she doing?’ I said dashing out, in fear of what I might find. Sigh. She’d done a poo…

This has really tickled me.

Ooral · 08/04/2024 23:22

I find that it is usually the other way around, and yes, it's infuriating!!

TheCheekyKoala · 08/04/2024 23:21

MummaMummaJumma · 08/04/2024 23:17

Don’t worry, it doesn’t bother me either. What usually happens on these threads is posters express their irritation with incorrect SPaG, they are then corrected by other posters…

…and everyone realises that no one is perfect and we are all capable of making mistakes.

It’s funny watching it all unfold though 😂

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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.

Diamond007D · 08/04/2024 23:21

MiffedandMiserable · 08/04/2024 22:02

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

🤣🤣

Isittimeformynapyet · 08/04/2024 23:19

"see it all the time outside of work to. An apostrophe instead of a pleural spelling."

@GentleButter Are you fucking with us now!

DawnBreaks · 08/04/2024 23:18

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

MummaMummaJumma · 08/04/2024 23:17

TheCheekyKoala · 08/04/2024 22:59

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

Don’t worry, it doesn’t bother me either. What usually happens on these threads is posters express their irritation with incorrect SPaG, they are then corrected by other posters…

…and everyone realises that no one is perfect and we are all capable of making mistakes.

It’s funny watching it all unfold though 😂

Isittimeformynapyet · 08/04/2024 23:14

abracadabra1980 · 08/04/2024 22:21

I have never heard anyone say this. Sometimes it can be because they have misheard a word when young and it has not been heard or spoken, very often, therefore nobody corrects them. My ExH mispronounced the word chimney as chimley until he was corrected at 21, purely because he'd misheard it.

That's fair enough, but how does one reach 21 without seeing the word "chimney" written down?

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 08/04/2024 23:06

TurtleMoon · 08/04/2024 22:42

I agree it's annoying, but what about brang instead of brought, or writ instead of wrote? Not to mention the kid (native English speaker, no SEND) who asked me "Did you be there?" A lot of children aren't exposed to much standard spoken English outside of school IME. Forming plurals with apostrophes is annoying, but that's a spelling issue, not a language error. I know plenty of well-educated smart people who struggle with this.

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

Seymour5 · 08/04/2024 23:03

PinkTonic · 08/04/2024 22:48

I automatically but inwardly correct less and fewer, and mute point makes me cringe.

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.

CeliaCanth · 08/04/2024 23:03

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”.

Aagh, I meant “free reign” (which keeps auto-correcting to “rein” for some reason)

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.

sweetpickle2 · 08/04/2024 23:02

“I don't understand why people don't want to make any sense when they speak.”

But they think the way they’re saying it is correct so to them it does make sense??

Also there is no way when someone says “I brought those shoes from new look” or whatever you don’t understand what they’re saying. It still makes sense.

Honestly OP you sound like an insufferable snob.

PinkTonic · 08/04/2024 23:01

Catsmere · 08/04/2024 22:57

I haven't seen that version, the one I see is always people talking about the breaks in their cars!

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And the heals on their shoes

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”.

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 08/04/2024 23:01

Justkoko · 08/04/2024 22:37

'Sicth' instead of sixth.
Oh, and 'spinnige' when they mean spinach.

Also 'twelth' for me. Susie Dent was talking on Countdown once about silent letters in words, but she included 'f' as in 'twelth'.

It's not officially accepted as 'silent', just because some people are too lazy to say it! You might as well say that the last four letters of 'brother' are silent, just because of the tendency for many to shorten it to 'bro'.

Also, the 'spinnige' one could be quite moot (not mute!) in Norfolk's only city: it seems to be 50/50 "Norritch" and "Norridge"!

IBegYourBiggestPardon · 08/04/2024 23:00

@GentleButter Dunno, I just always have done.

TheCheekyKoala · 08/04/2024 22:59

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

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 08/04/2024 22:58

SabreIsMyFave · 08/04/2024 21:59

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

I'm not sure how you'd differentiate between those aurally, but I'd say that far more people who mean 'tenet' say 'tenant' than actually say it correctly - e.g. 'a tenant of faith'.

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