It's BOUGHT not BROUGHT!!!

[OuchLegoHurts]

I've only just started noticing this, and I'm not British so don't know how long it's been happening, but I keep seeing people on mn using 'brought' instead of 'bought'! It's drinking me crazy as it makes absolutely no sense at all, and I just can't understand how the hell anyone could think that it's correct. Aaaargh! If you paid fucking money for it in the shop then you fucking BOUGHT it. If you took it from one place you another with you then you BROUGHT it. Driving. Me. Crazy.

[toosexyforyahshirt]

1) take/bring - I now sometimes say 'what should I bring to the party' when I know the correct word is take, but I heard it sooo many times I started using it as I thought it was also correct

Bring is perfectly correct in that context. You do bring a bottle to a party, though you might take one away from the party.
The essential difference between these two words is that bring implies movement towards someone or something, Whereas take implies movement away from someone or something or something.

[Ohmyfuck]

Buy/bought, bring/brought

[IloveBanff]

Arealhumanbeing "Also teachers who can't spell or use grammar. Since fucking WHEN?!!"

When my daughter was at primary school I went in on a parents' day and was looking through her work books. I noticed that her teacher had crossed out the word "scary" that my daughter had written and replaced it in red pen with "scarey". To say I wasn't amused is the understatement of the century. Then the head teacher made it worse by saying that she could never spell "icy", she often put "icey". It's a 3 letter word for fuck's sake! That a primary school child's spelling is better than her teacher's is outrageous.

[Leaspr]

I know. It really isn't difficult. I do tell my daughter quite often that bought is to buy, brought is to bring!

[C4pinkwheels]

The one that makes me want to scream is people who say eltz instead of else,^^ I know several primary school teachers who say this.

[Flatpackback]

Off of. Why do people say this? No one says "put it on of it" but plenty say "take it off of it". Why?

[Flatpackback]

And another thing. Sentences beginning with and. And the broadsheets do it too. And it drives me nuts.

[SarahJane123]

The one that seems prevalent these days is the confusion between who's and whose. They mean completely different things and are not interchangeable. "Look whose 40" is one that I saw on a poster, at work. Someone corrected it with a marker pen

[Arealhumanbeing]

@IloveBanff

I despair. How is that allowed?

[DixieFlatline]

toosexyforyahshirt

You can't say that bring is definitely correct in that sentence because you do not know who she is speaking to about it and where they are.

Imagine she's asking her mum the question on the phone, and her mum is neither going to the party nor at the place the party will be held.

[Takenforanob]

But it's incorrect.

[RortyCrankle]

Oh and another one I see on here - defiantly instead of definitely. How stupid is that?

[Admirablenelson]

I take my shopping home. I don't take my shopping from the shop. I do bring home the bacon, though. I don't think the distinction between bring and take is as clear as a pp suggests.

[LexieLulu]

I've got to be honest, I make this mistake often. I have to really think when I write out brought/bought.

I obviously know the difference, but for some reason I always type it wrong.

Now effect and affect is one I never know if I'm using correctly. I have tried to get my head round it and can't (anyone want to explain I would appreciate).

I was always great and maths/science in school, English just wasn't something I found easy. X

[LexieLulu]

@RortyCrankle I think that's a auto correct, or I hope! I see it all the time on FB and I've gave people the benefit of the doubt 😂

[ghostyslovesheets]

oh here we go 'poor education' 'stupid' etc etc

I have a learning disability

I also have a masters degree

I get confused between the two - i tend to use purchased to escape the wrath of overly petty picky twats - hth

[OuchLegoHurts]

The bring/take argument has been confused a little here. You CAN bring your child to playgroup, or bring a bottle of wine to a party, or bring a suitcase on a flight. Taking implies taking something away from somewhere, e.g., taking a bottle of wine home from a party or taking a child away from school for the day.

[OuchLegoHurts]

en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/bring-or-take

[Gran22]

Here's one. Prostrate and prostate. Anyone notice the difference? Men may prostRate themselves, and some may have a problem with their prostate.

[tigercub50]

Breath & breathe gets me too. There are so many! In threads like this, you put aside folks with dyslexia or with anything else that affects their spelling/grammar. But there are huge numbers of people that don't have such difficulties who seem incapable of grasping the basics! "Your" instead of "you're" annoys the hell out of me! There were even basic errors in DDs school report e.g. " with a superb speech that she had wrote herself"! There's no hope!

[Albadross]

'I'm sat here'. SITTING, FGS.

My boss types (and says) "We're/I're get him to do it". Jesus...

[DixieFlatline]

I take my shopping home.

Not if the person you're talking to is at home!

[Admirablenelson]

Taking implies

[Admirablenelson]

Exactly, or rather, not. It's an implication, a suggestion. Aren't these nuances and subtlety of English all part of the joy of it?

[Admirablenelson]

On an Irish beach once, painted in large letters on a rock, I saw: Bring your litter home. I thought, that looks wrong somehow, and then I thought there was something charming about it.