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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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PracticallyPerfectedIt · 08/04/2024 22:57

I've only seen it the other way round from the OP but it makes me mad.

It isn't really something people say here so much as we all roll our rrrrrrs so bought and brought sound quite different.

Oakbeam · 08/04/2024 22:57

License instead of licence is a very common one on MN.

Also people asking for advise.

user1471284740 · 08/04/2024 22:57

MiffedandMiserable · 08/04/2024 22:02

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

This has made my night! I’m sure I’ll still be chuckling about that tomorrow.

Catsmere · 08/04/2024 22:57

HundredMilesAnHour · 08/04/2024 22:47

I see this one on MN all the bloody time.

Brake instead of break e.g. "he shagged someone else when we were on a brake"

Argh!!!!!!

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

HundredMilesAnHour · 08/04/2024 22:56

GentleButter · 08/04/2024 22:50

He argues at me that he's right and I'm wrong.

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

RobinEllacotStrike · 08/04/2024 22:56

I can't get two worked up about passed eras.

IBegYourBiggestPardon · 08/04/2024 22:56

@StormingNorman Thank you

IBegYourBiggestPardon · 08/04/2024 22:55

@YeahComeOnThen No I haven't, but this helps massively. So thank you

Kta7 · 08/04/2024 22:54

YaMuvva · 08/04/2024 22:52

It’s worst the other way around.

”I brought some crisps at the shop”.

My inner pedant explodes with rage when people say this.

Worse surely? 😉

IBegYourBiggestPardon · 08/04/2024 22:53

greezelouise · 08/04/2024 22:10

Bring becomes brought
Buy becomes bought

Thank you!!

SeismicSalad · 08/04/2024 22:53

idontlikealdi · 08/04/2024 21:57

I'm a pedant but that is a very regional thing

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Really?! Which region?

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GentleButter · 08/04/2024 22:53

BirthdayRainbow · 08/04/2024 22:49

It's along the same line as with somethink. Do people think it is cute to be dumbing down. No. Just the fuck no.

Oh yes.
The good old 'k' instead of 'ing' at the end of a word.
Give me strength.

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YaMuvva · 08/04/2024 22:52

It’s worst the other way around.

”I brought some crisps at the shop”.

My inner pedant explodes with rage when people say this.

ScotttCheggg · 08/04/2024 22:52

User284725 · 08/04/2024 22:46

I haven't really noticed people doing that but it would annoy me too. I find some of these things are regional. The one that gets me irrationally angry is been instead of being. 'the shopkeeper was been so rude' 'am I been unreasonable?'

You’ve just triggered a childhood memory of my mum’s hairdresser telling us a story about an experience of her driving at night and how the oncoming car “…had its headlights full-on bean. FULL-ON BEAN.” 😂

I fully appreciate it’s a whole different type of been, but it just dragged the memory from the recesses of my brain!

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!

notkeenonkiwis · 08/04/2024 22:51

I understand your annoyance but I'd say that those who make this sort of mistake do so because they have been brought up by someone who also used the words incorrectly, therefore they have been "programmed" incorrectly from the start, let's say.
To learn something in the correct form in the first place is pretty simple, whereas to correct the way you speak is quite difficult.

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GentleButter · 08/04/2024 22:50

MummaMummaJumma · 08/04/2024 22:43

What does your Husband say when you ask him?

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He argues at me that he's right and I'm wrong.

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User284725 · 08/04/2024 22:49

I also sympathise as my DH pronounces a few words wrong. Like with the intonation in the wrong place. 14 years of my attempting to correct him and he won't have it. I don't think he can even tell the difference but I clench my teeth every time.

BirthdayRainbow · 08/04/2024 22:49

It's along the same line as with somethink. Do people think it is cute to be dumbing down. No. Just the fuck no.

PinkTonic · 08/04/2024 22:48

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

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GentleButter · 08/04/2024 22:48

LoinChop · 08/04/2024 22:46

I do this all the time op. I'm very well educated, know exactly which one means which but for some reason I have a mental block when it comes to saying the right one. Written, it's no problem though. It's always bugged me and I think that makes it happen even more.

God help you.

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HundredMilesAnHour · 08/04/2024 22:47

I see this one on MN all the bloody time.

Brake instead of break e.g. "he shagged someone else when we were on a brake"

Argh!!!!!!

LoinChop · 08/04/2024 22:46

I do this all the time op. I'm very well educated, know exactly which one means which but for some reason I have a mental block when it comes to saying the right one. Written, it's no problem though. It's always bugged me and I think that makes it happen even more.

User284725 · 08/04/2024 22:46

I haven't really noticed people doing that but it would annoy me too. I find some of these things are regional. The one that gets me irrationally angry is been instead of being. 'the shopkeeper was been so rude' 'am I been unreasonable?'

DuplicateUserName · 08/04/2024 22:44

Tadpole2 · 08/04/2024 22:32

I noticed two elderly family members saying "corvid" (pronounced as in the crow family of birds), instead of "covid" to refer to the Corona virus at the start of the pandemic. I was too polite to correct them and then the moment passed and they are still pronouncing it corvid. Wish I had corrected 4 years ago.

A lot of people got 'furlong' during lockdown 😬🤣

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