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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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MummaMummaJumma · 08/04/2024 22:43

GentleButter · 08/04/2024 22:40

No, you're absolutely right, it's not a tricky concept to grasp. So why can't people grasp it?!

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What does your Husband say when you ask him?

PTSDBarbiegirl · 08/04/2024 22:43

My MIL pronounces Covid as 'Covis', as in the bread Hovis. God, give me strength.

Catsmere · 08/04/2024 22:43

My BiL allegedly can't pronounce prostate. He always says prostrate. How the hell the first is harder to pronounce than the second I'll never know.

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.

scruffydogstinks · 08/04/2024 22:42

scruffydogstinks · 08/04/2024 22:41

Also the dressmaker in me gets irritated when people call "fabric" "material". Its fabric. The material is what the fabric is made of.

And people who can't use apostrophes.... 😬😆 it's a typo I promise!

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 08/04/2024 22:42

@GentleButter there are loads of stupid people around who use words without understanding the meaning of said words! "can you borrow me a tent?" wtf does that mean? "I am looking for a chester draws" what the hell?? and the up and coming one which is beginning to creep through everywhere is "he was sat" !!!! absolutely dreadful lazy use of english language. where are yous going? is that even a bloody word?

VerinMathwin · 08/04/2024 22:41

I'm bias instead of biased.

scruffydogstinks · 08/04/2024 22:41

Also the dressmaker in me gets irritated when people call "fabric" "material". Its fabric. The material is what the fabric is made of.

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GentleButter · 08/04/2024 22:40

Kta7 · 08/04/2024 22:23

Oh for crying out loud - we all have different strengths, surely that’s not a tricky concept to grasp?

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No, you're absolutely right, it's not a tricky concept to grasp. So why can't people grasp it?!

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PurplePim · 08/04/2024 22:40

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.

I know someone who pronounces it 'covvid' with a short 'o' as in orange. I wish someone had corrected her 4 years ago too (I didn't know her then).

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GentleButter · 08/04/2024 22:39

Lilydolly1981 · 08/04/2024 22:05

Pacific instead of specific.

"Could you be more pacific though?!"

You mean the ocean or 'specific' 👀

This has triggered a traumatic memory!
I had a conversation with a much older female colleague, who was in her 60s and was very well regarded at work.
She said "I think we need to be more pacific when we include that topic in our speech". I just looked at her, dumbfounded. I thought "Are you talking about the Pacific ocean? What you've just said literally makes no sense at all". But I didn't say anything to her, in order to avoid her embarrassment. I just thought "Holy fuck, you're actually saying pacific instead of specific".
Later that week, she said, in an authoritarian manner to a junior colleague: "I pacifically asked you to use the one we discussed last week, so why didn't you?".
At this point, I had to go and lock myself in the staff toilet to recover.

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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...

Justkoko · 08/04/2024 22:37

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

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…

ScotttCheggg · 08/04/2024 22:35

I hear lots of people saying “generally” when they mean “genuinely”.

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.

Sobersally · 08/04/2024 22:31

I can’t cope with people saying ‘borrowed’ in the wrong way .. eg ‘he borrowed me a pen’ and ‘can you borrow me a pen?’ Gahhh

fashionqueen1183 · 08/04/2024 22:30

kikisparks · 08/04/2024 21:58

Draw instead of drawers does it for me.

Even worse is people on selling sites selling ‘Chester draws.’

How just how?!

DuplicateUserName · 08/04/2024 22:29

annieloulou · 08/04/2024 22:27

Prolly instead of probably.

I done them letters instead of I’ve done those letters (hospital admin office).

It learns them instead of it taught them.

My sister got a bottle of shampoo from the vet with 'For the treatment of canine minge' on the label 🤣🤣

Hoping it was just a typo!

Fromage · 08/04/2024 22:29

Mostly I notice, and don't care if it's people chatting on the internet etc. As long as you get your meaning across, we all understand what's meant.

But occasionally it drives me mad.

Currently I am going squinty and twitchy eyed about people saying 'apart' when they mean 'part.'

grrrrrr

SoundTheSirens · 08/04/2024 22:29

Reign it in.

No! It’s a phrase from horse riding, not the monarchy.

StormySpanielz · 08/04/2024 22:28

ThursdayTomorrow · 08/04/2024 21:44

Present and presant
Affect and effect

Presant?

I’m really hoping this is some genius response to the tedious predictability of this thread we have seen many times before.

BingoMarieHeeler · 08/04/2024 22:27

Also ‘textses’ instead of ‘texts’. Hear that one all the time.

My boss used to say ‘generally’ instead of ‘genuinely’.

MummaMummaJumma · 08/04/2024 22:27

I hope everyone’s proofing their posts. The hunters are out tonight 👀🍿🍿

annieloulou · 08/04/2024 22:27

Prolly instead of probably.

I done them letters instead of I’ve done those letters (hospital admin office).

It learns them instead of it taught them.

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