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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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Hadjab · 10/04/2024 18:02

GentleButter · 10/04/2024 17:19

I've already explained this.
Do read the full thread.

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I read the full thread, doesn’t make it any less wrong…

TinkerTiger · 10/04/2024 17:46

dickdarstardlymuttley · 09/04/2024 16:55

Where is my dyslexic tribe on here?!

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Right? People on this thread are proudly displaying their ableism and ignorance.

MoonWoman69 · 10/04/2024 17:45

Can you be more "pacific"... AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
No I can't, I'm not the bloody ocean!!! 🤬🤬🤬

Cocorico22 · 10/04/2024 17:36

ColleenDonaghy · 10/04/2024 13:00

Surely they meant ignorant as in rude, which is an accepted meaning?

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nah it was very clearly ignoring people = “ignorant” behaviour

either way, could be a regional variation 🤷‍♀️

ASighMadeOfStone · 10/04/2024 17:29

GentleButter · 10/04/2024 17:21

Do read the full thread.

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Oh, trust me. I have.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 10/04/2024 17:21

Plurals that really make me want to correct someone, although I never do:

Baby’s, family’s, party’s, etc. But you then also get people using the plural as a possessive - ‘The babies pram…’. 😩
And
Box’s
Bus’s
Christmas’s
Elf’s

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GentleButter · 10/04/2024 17:21

ASighMadeOfStone · 10/04/2024 12:27

It's fun when Muphry gets them, though! As he always does. The OP of this thread has made some absolute shockers.
Almost makes it worth it.
Weird though, isn't it...has to start a thread over bought/brought, yet can't spell "plural" or use commas. Funny old world.

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Do read the full thread.

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GentleButter · 10/04/2024 17:19

Hadjab · 10/04/2024 12:08

Plueral?

I've had pleurisy twice - I wonder what the plural of pleurisy is 🤔

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I've already explained this.
Do read the full thread.

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LanaL · 10/04/2024 17:04

I always get these mixed up!

But , I understand how annoying it can be ! For me I get a silly amount of rage when I see people write “collage” instead of “college” or “of” instead of “have “ ( I would of preferred …. ) and probably the most annoying “what” instead of “that” or “which” - like “ I did something what I wouldn’t have done “ or “ he got into the school what he wanted “ …. Urgh I hate it!

OneBadKitty · 10/04/2024 16:50

MsLuxLisbon · 10/04/2024 16:49

Ha, that's how I pronounced the word skeleton when I was five!

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DH says it- it drives me mad and makes him sound thick.

MsLuxLisbon · 10/04/2024 16:49

OneBadKitty · 10/04/2024 16:47

Skellington! Grr!

Ha, that's how I pronounced the word skeleton when I was five!

OneBadKitty · 10/04/2024 16:47

Skellington! Grr!

ColleenDonaghy · 10/04/2024 16:41

CloudywMeatballs · 10/04/2024 16:32

We do use both advice and advise in the US. But practice and license are always spelled that way.

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Sorry, yes, I meant for practic/se and licenc/se.

belleager · 10/04/2024 16:39

ColleenDonaghy · 10/04/2024 15:13

Where's she from? My mum used to jokingly say azoo, azed and possibly azip for zoo, zed (as in the letter) and zip as did my maths teacher. All from Dublin I think it's an old Dub usage?

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The world would be poorer without usages like d'azoo

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g186605-d189068-r409357814-Phoenix_Park-Dublin_County_Dublin.html

I think younger, media-savvy generations know this applies only to Dublin zoo.

Someone told me about a similar habit in Bristol - a final letter in words like Tesco etc? Was it Tescol's? There is definitely something.

CloudywMeatballs · 10/04/2024 16:34

I can't stand when people write loose instead of lose, like "I want to loose weight". I could understand it if the two words were pronounced the same, but they're not.

Your for you're also drives me nutty and it's used everywhere, by intelligent neurotypical people. Why?

CloudywMeatballs · 10/04/2024 16:32

ColleenDonaghy · 10/04/2024 16:22

I always have to do the same and use advice/advise. But yes, in the US they just use the one spelling (can never remember which).

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We do use both advice and advise in the US. But practice and license are always spelled that way.

2mummies1baby · 10/04/2024 16:26

PlumpAndDeliciousFatcat · 10/04/2024 16:23

Yes, that poster is correct. AmE uses ‘license’ for both the noun and the verb. Confusingly they do the same with ‘practice’.

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They could at least be consistent!

Although, to be fair, BrE goes from 'glamour' to 'glamorous', so we have our own issues.

PlumpAndDeliciousFatcat · 10/04/2024 16:23

2mummies1baby · 10/04/2024 16:20

What, even for the noun? How strange!

With 'licence'/'license' and 'practice'/'practise', I always have to take a moment and think about 'advice' and 'advise' to make sure I get the right one.

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Yes, that poster is correct. AmE uses ‘license’ for both the noun and the verb. Confusingly they do the same with ‘practice’.

ColleenDonaghy · 10/04/2024 16:22

2mummies1baby · 10/04/2024 16:20

What, even for the noun? How strange!

With 'licence'/'license' and 'practice'/'practise', I always have to take a moment and think about 'advice' and 'advise' to make sure I get the right one.

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I always have to do the same and use advice/advise. But yes, in the US they just use the one spelling (can never remember which).

2mummies1baby · 10/04/2024 16:20

CloudywMeatballs · 10/04/2024 15:23

License is the American spelling.

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What, even for the noun? How strange!

With 'licence'/'license' and 'practice'/'practise', I always have to take a moment and think about 'advice' and 'advise' to make sure I get the right one.

goneaway2 · 10/04/2024 16:19

Cum instead of come, really gives me the ick.

Straightupmom · 10/04/2024 16:15

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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THIS..!! I have never seen anyone using what the OP said…. But my fucking god…

“we just brought a new house”
no hun, you didn’t bring the house anywhere

It used to take all my energy not to correct people in comment sections…but now, I just breathe through it and scroll on. Still fucking annoying though 🤣

unnumber · 10/04/2024 16:11

ColleenDonaghy · 10/04/2024 15:13

Where's she from? My mum used to jokingly say azoo, azed and possibly azip for zoo, zed (as in the letter) and zip as did my maths teacher. All from Dublin I think it's an old Dub usage?

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A bit like how English speakers took a napple and a napron and decided that can't be right - you mean apple and apron!

OtsyBotsy90 · 10/04/2024 15:52

😂😂 I have a friend who in text messages writes ‘your’ but she means you will!

fungipie · 10/04/2024 15:47

BeckiBoBecki · 10/04/2024 14:04

Um, the words mean two utterely seperate things. Educate yourself.

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This post truly cheered me up- hilarious!

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