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.

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.

Can you explain more, Sandy?

I'm curious as to whether I am using the phrase incorrectly. It's my understanding that a 'learning curve' is a process in which you start performing a new skill or task and improve exponentially as you go. Does it mean something different in scientific terms?

Am instead of I'm, gets on my wick.
"Am going to the shops"

Blue sky thinking or thinking outside the box.....phrases should be banned....when I hear these, my insides cringe

Sandy, it does mean doing something new, or for the first time. You are on a learning curve when you are doing something new.

That isn't incorrect use at all.

Maybe in the world of science there is a different nuance, but in lay terms it is fine.

This isn't really apropos, I suppose, but my brother used to deliberately refer to Westminister, York Minister, etc, (after our SIL referred to buying Westminister door chimes) but the politician as a Minster. He chuckled malevolently when I accidentally said that I was going to watch "Yes, Prime Minster," without actually meaning to say it. Same with Chopin/Choppin and a couple of other word combinations.

I have found a few posters on here who write 'he's' instead of 'his', for example "I can't stand he's friends". I don't understand how people can get it wrong.

Oh and it's 'tenterhooks'.

Runyoubitch - that's the correct meaning, what I hear nowadays is mainly people using it to mean they've learned something new that they only need to do once i.e. no repetative element or getting better at doing the same thing

Topsyt - that's not what it means, that's my point You can't just change the meaning of something, apart from anything else it just doesn't make any sense, the "curve" refers to the graph of getting better at doing the same thing. You are only on the curve if you are repeating the same task.

But as I said above I accept that I'm fighting a losing battle on this one

Another one I've just been reminded of - 'why' instead of 'while' -
"You clean the kitchen why I clean the bathroom" makes no sense!!
Although it may be a regional thing because people do say 'why' instead of saying the full word 'while' round here.

Another one that pisses me off is "The reason being is that I'm really tired" Grr! No. "The reason being that I'm really tired"!