To actually hate people who say bought instead of brought

The recent trend for interchangeable use of worse and worst (and indeed the reversal of the previously understood meanings) is my niche item of common contemporary usage to be annoyed about.

Finding this “unbearable” and hating people for their grammatical errors is a bit strong isn’t it? Plenty of other things to find unbearable and hateful in the world other than this☺️personally I find the use of loose instead of lose irritating but I don’t dwell😊

Lots of people will have started doing it independently, because they were all triggered by a real language rule - xted endings rarely / never happen in English. And then, -t is an alternative past-tense marker where -ed doesn't seem right. And then - but -t never adds another syllable when it's used that way.

We don't learn our native language by learning rules about grammar. We learn them by absorbing and reproducing patterns, which gives a 99% fit with rules in grammar textbooks.

It would be interesting to see the first use but I suspect impossible to identify. Changes in language usually happen for reasons affecting lots of people simultaneously, and that helps them to spread and stick.

They actually say:
"To give a Pacific Ocean example...". ?
Do you have a link? I'd like to see this. It would be interesting for a study on why errors are made.

My pet hate is the word specific. Even TV presenters can’t seem to say it correctly, and start talking about the Pacific Ocean for some strange reason!

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

If this is all you have to worry about in life, think you are doing pretty well.

It blew my mind when I heard someone use ‘ignorant’ to mean they felt they had been ignoring someone. As in “I’m sorry for being ignorant and not replying to you.” Well, quite!

I used to be an apostrophe vigilante but eventually realised life’s too short and I hung up my anorak.

Draw instead of drawer......aaarrrgghhhh

I also rue the near-loss of the comparative in modern-day speech.

I remember in my DS's first week at school, seeing a table display with a drawing of two worms - one shorter and one longer - and the question "Which worm is the longest?"

You hardly ever hear of children in two-child families these days referred to as 'the younger' or 'the elder/older one'.

Yes, that's what you would assume. I wonder who the first person was who decided arbitrarily to make 'text' its own past tense, without the expected 'ed' suffix? Unless people somehow think that the verb is 'to tex', in which case the past tense would sound like 'text', but surely you would then spell it as 'texed' to be consistent?

If you think definitely is spelled definately (not a big spelling mistake), then autocorrect will often change definately to defiantly.

Am I the only one here with 'If It Wasnae Fer Yer Wellies' going around in my head?!

It's been explained many times.
Poor education. Poor cognition skills. Dyslexia. Etc.

I’ve got an Etsy shop and am in some Etsy sellers groups. So many people say sells instead of sales eg I haven’t had any sells this month

Also a lot of people talk about their costumers rather than customers. It could be autocorrect I guess, but it happens so often I don’t know

Or understand phonology.

The Cambridge Dictionary says this:

The adjective different means ‘not the same’. When we compare two or more items, it is usually followed by from. We also use different to, especially in speaking:
Adam is so different from/to his brother.
This house is very different from/to your last one.

I wonder why it would say 'especially in speaking' after the usual 'from'? That does rather suggest, at best, an 'informal' usage; and at worst, an incorrect one.

Others may disagree, but I understand this as part of the descriptive (and not prescriptive) nature of dictionaries, whereby if enough people get something wrong over time, it makes it in - not as proof of its correctness but simply as a record that this is what is commonly said.

I imagine that, in time, 'could of' and 'should of' etc. will be found in dictionaries as valid alternatives, purely by dint of the fact that enough people have consistently got them wrong. I believe 'literally' is already listed in dictionaries as effectively meaning either 'literally' or 'NOT literally'.

Maybe, in time, the word 'green' might be described as 'either the same general colour as grass OR a descriptor of anything of any colour that is the same as, similar to or absolutely nothing whatsoever like the colour of grass'! It does very much run counter to the whole purpose of language for communication and common understanding when words can come to mean absolutely anything or nothing at all.

Defiantly instead of definitely. I just don’t understand how grown adults get basic words so wrong. People with good jobs too.

This thread is making me chuckle I can’t stand want instead of won’t and he ‘arrksed’ instead of asked grrrraaahhhhhhhhh

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.

Of instead of have.

Usually coincides with people who hold their cutlery in the wrong hands.

I despise stupid people who start threads about SPaG.

Just another 'unpopular opinions' thread. Same old shit.

That's why I wrote "say".

People writing loose when they mean lose drives me crazy.

I also can't bear the overuse of the word would when describe activities in the past. Every fucking past tense verb used with would instead of just the simple past....

Similarly, a conditional sentence such as "If we would have gone to the airport earlier we wouldn't have missed the flight", instead of "If we had gone to the airport earlier we wouldn't have missed the flight". You don't need fucking would in both parts of that sentence. Fucking hell. Fuck's sake.
I need to calm down!

I don't know why I have started to notice would everywhere but it is really ever present, both in speech and written texts. Why the fuck is it appearing all the time?

It's far worse than bought and brought (though they drive me mad too).

Plueral?

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