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.

Many of my students used to write 'X was bias when she said....'
Biased not bias!

This was typo but it still makes me smile. 'The subjects had to read the words for one minuet.'

Ouchlegohurts - I don't think yourl link says what you think it does, it's hard for me to explain but as an example it would be wrong to ask "should I bring a present to a party?" as a general question but if you are speaking to the person who's having the party it would be correct to ask "shall I bring a present to your party?"

I don't know if you can distill this into a rule or whether it's something you learn (or should learn) as a native English speaker

What's wrong with 'bring your litter home' ?

I am very stupid though so excuse me.

I'm laughing here, wondering if it should say 'bing your litter home'

My ex friend used to spell lying/dying as lieng/dieng. It made me itch every single time.

It should be TAKE your litter home, I are you American/Irish? I notice people from those countries often use bring wrongly

'Bring your rubbish home' sounds fine to me, yes I'm Irish!

'Bring your son home'
'Bring your baby home'
'Bring him home' (like the song)

They all sound grand, am I very wrong?

Bring/take

It all depends on where the person is who is instructing.
If the person is at home then the instruction is Bring the litter home. On a beach it is Take away the litter from the beach.

And the one that really drives me demented is "Please bare with me" - I don't want to see you naked, I want to BEAR with you!

"Loose' for 'lose' does my head in, and the incorrect spelling of 'definitely': 'I definately need to loose a few pounds...' No you don't, I silently scream, you need to learn to bloody spell.

Worse is 'defiantly' in place of 'definitely'.

"I defiantly failed to check my spelling with this one." Having said that, maybe they did fail to check their spelling in defiance...

'Bring' meaning 'take' is an Irish thing, I thought.

In Father Ted, they 'bring' the lovely horse to the horse dentist.

People are saying that draw and drawer sound the same? It sounds different when I say them, draw has only one syllable and drawer has 2 .

His for he's. "Aww his so cute. Aww I think his lovely." Arrrggghhh!

Oh and "need gone" "needs cleaned" "needs ironed" and so on.

Thanks for explaining that to me olivers mums army.

Maybe the person who painted the rock was taking dictation from her indoors on a mobile phone.

Sort of connected why to middle class white yoof try to sound..... Like someone else

I am dyslexic, and dyspraxic as it happens.
I LOVE that Google Chrome has a spell check function, (though I noticed before it did that I had instead written 'chorme'). Dyslexia is not an excuse in the land of the modern internet. If I can't spell a word, I can try sounding it out in my head and typing that out, then hoping spell check can give me the correct word. Or I can pick up my phone and say 'Okay Google, how do you spell...?' and Google will tell me. Or Siri or whatever.
I literally cannot stand (just ask my DP about my ranting) people using dyslexia as an excuse to confuse things like there/their/they're. If you struggle with it get someone to write it on a post-it and stick it on your computer. Or, you can talk around it for example: they are on holiday/ the car, that belonged to them etc etc. It's awkward but better than making a mistake.

I also agree that a lack of reading is what is fuelling this decline in writing ability. I know that my love of reading is what has helped me.

I do use colloquial grammar in my spoken English in casual situations, I also regularly mispronounce words, or say something that makes total sense to me but completely confuses others. That is my dyspraxia, and it really upsets me.

To me, to, too and two sound different.
Drawer is 2 syllables, draw is one. Should of and should've don't sound the same. Layer and lair don't sound the same either.

Some things, like brought/bought and haitch/aitch are regional. Still irritating.

Agree YANBU

I can't bare it is as bad as tow the line.
'Horses for courses' used wrongly is annoying as is 'begs the question', which nowadays seems to almost always be used incorrectly.

You just gotta keep correcting numpties, one incoherent error at a time.

Another of my pet peeves is the incorrect use of learning curve. I'm probably in a minority on this one but it seems to have totally lost its original scientific meaning and is always now used to describe doing something new or the first time.

It annoys me every time I hear it

"I'll do it when I come off holiday"

Makes my teeth itch.