To actually hate people who say bought instead of brought

I haven’t come across that one. There are many that set my teeth on edge, but my new pet hate is British people saying and writing ‘Mom’ instead of ‘Mum’ (common on MN). This of course follows on from ‘can I get’ instead of ‘can I have’. I probably should just just give-up because it seems the we are all doomed to speak and write American English instead of the English version 🙄

That sounds like it should be the official name for those teasels that they use in National Trust houses, to stop visitors from sitting on the delicate original upholstered Queen Anne chairs!

Ah - I think that is the same regional accent that renders broadcast as bordcarst. I never noticed the missing r early on in it until someone pointed it out. It’s a weird one as they presumably don’t pronounce broad as bord, but it is just a regional variation I think.

thank god, I thought I had gone mad.

Doesn’t matter how many times the OP smugly tells us to “read the thread” (which I have done), her shocking use of punctuation (or lack thereof) still hasn’t been explained. 🤣I bloody love these threads 🤣🤣🤣

OP, it’s very extreme to say you ‘hate people’ who say ‘bought’ instead of ‘brought’. Do you genuinely hate your Husband? Or do you ‘hate it’ when people say bought instead of brought? Big difference.

You’ve received a lot of backlash on your thread because you have presented yourself as a pedant, when actually you share the same struggles with SPaG. You possibly would have received a warmer reception if you had have owned a few of your own flaws, instead of excusing them.

I personally would not correct other peoples SPaG if I were not willing to be corrected on my own. When posters have pointed it out to you, you’ve been dismissive.

We are all entitled to feel irritated by the way others say and spell words (I could not care less personally), however you’ve been rude and have mocked those explaining why they struggle. Well, you did in the former part of this thread, you haven’t said much since you’ve been picked up on your mistakes. Now do you see what happens when posters are mocked for their SPaG? They withdraw from conversations for fear of being judged. Exactly as you have done here!

FYI, I haven’t proofed my post, I don’t really care. Pedants’, you may correct as you see fit 😉

I can't stand that one either, but I believe it to be correct US English.

I occasionally make this mistake, although I am usually a stickler about grammar. For me it is more a pronunciation thing and something that was common where I grew up. I know the difference, but sometimes the wrong word pops out. Whereas other mistakes like 'can you borrow me' just drive me crackers!

On accident instead of by accident does things to my brain, apparently its technically correct too but I can't hear it without cringing.

Is she American?

Thanks @ColleenDonaghy that's the one!

Wow: that does not sound a zen-like state!

This absolutely boils my piss! I work in a customer facing role where people do it all the time and I can almost taste the blood from biting my tongue so hard!

I don't normally do this, but tbh, when someone has been so horrible and smug and, frankly, demeaning about other people's English, you'd think their own would be pretty damn perfect.

Instead we've got basic spelling mistakes, a seeming lack of any knowledge about punctuation and, on another thread (yes, I searched, so shoot me) a "did used"

I'd say that instead of channelling all that "hate" into bought/brought an elementary English language textbook would work wonders.

And looking up Dunning-Kruger syndrome while she's at it.

Oh yes!

"I see it all the time outside of work to."

Yes that's the misuse I hear, not the other way around way round!

She has hasn’t she ? Which one are you looking at?

My DSDs often ask for 'stake' for tea 🤣

Most of these mentioned annoy the hell out of me too...

Will you borrow me? is one of my favourite peeves 🤣 and aaaarg... where, were wear... two, too, and to

However, reading this (for me, extremely funny thread) makes me grateful to have had a good primary school education and to be brought up in a 'well spoken' area so at least when I became a horrid teenager and spoke in 'slang', I still knew how to spell and form sentences correctly (hopefully most of the time anyway)... my DSDs didn't have that luxury and although bright and successful adults now... their sentence structure and SPaG is awful...

I'm good at translating poorly written English as I'm used to it but I do feel I am allowed to have a private scream (or laugh) once in a while! Like another MNs post, if you don't like the thread, buzz off 🤣🤣 😘

My DH says that too , totally annoying

@GentleButter you’re on a very high horse for someone who can’t use ‘to’ and ‘too’ correctly 😶

Oh and anti-botticks ( antibiotics)

Presant?

Yes that’s another that sets off my internal intolerant pedant .

“That begs the question “ meaning “that prompts the question” instead of the correct usage meaning to anticipate the answer of the question. It’s more often wrongly used than correctly.