Bought vs Brought

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AIBU to cringe every time someone uses 'brought' when they mean 'bought'?

"I went to the shop and brought a ^^"

I don't normally care about things like this. Never ever correct anyone (even in this case). But for some reason this one really makes me cringe.

Is brought rather than bought always wrong? Or AIBU and it's regional or something?

Grammar and vocabulary warriors annoy me.
My husband is severely dyslexic and cannot spell for love nor money. He’s extremely intelligent, far more intelligent than I am certainly, but on paper he can look like a small child. He gets words completely wrong for the context (such as your example of brought instead of bought) and then even basic spelling he just cannot manage to get it right. His brain just does not compute in a way that allows him to get this right and it certainly is not for lack of trying; his parents struggled for years to send him to a private school as his local state wrote him off as stupid and didn’t even try to teach him and he always had extra tutoring. And he did manage to obtain a degree in his field of interest with extra support but he is still to this day, very self conscious about it and becomes highly stressed anytime he need to fill out any paperwork or asks me to check any e-mail he needs to send off to someone who doesn’t know him well.
He is the sweetest, most gentle person and takes care of me and our little family in the most loving way and he works extremely hard at his business which he built from scratch to provide a good life for himself and us. It frustrates me no end knowing how many people out there would look at a text, a comment or whatever it is that he has written and as so many of you say ‘cringe’ because he hasn’t got it quite right. You make an instant judgement about someone you don’t know from Adam based on one tiny piece of information about them and don’t even consider how genuinely difficult it is for them to manage whatever it is they put out there.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurateur

Brung also the OE past tense. Brang is Scots (from OE).

Sorry guys!

Also ‘gifted’ - they gifted her a...

Oh yes, the verbalisation of nouns, I also loathe 'parenting', sorry MN!

I've never encountered bought and brought confusion, it may be regional, we're Northern England originally.
I dislike people who start almost every sentence So.....
'End of' always gets the response 'End of what' from me, that puzzles people nicely.
Many years ago a young teaching colleague was told to 'Piss off' by a male pupil. Her response was 'Off where?' and the puzzled look on his face and the mockery from his friends far exceeded any official punishment!

Brung also the OE past tense. Brang is Scots (from OE).

Forsooth, prithee wherefore didst thou feel moved to grace mine humble learning with thine cankered sirreverance of ye olde knowledge? Alas, alack!

From the link:

A less common variant spelling restauranteur is formed from the "more familiar" term restaurant[5] with the French suffix -eur borrowed from restaurateur. It is considered a misspelling by some.

Now, that is a superbly diplomatic way of slapping down the dissidents, if ever I saw one.

I always find, like, when somebody is literally like, every single word, they'll be like "And I was like and she turned around and she was like - literally, every single sentence, that's exactly what she's literally like, like" - I'm reading it and I'm just like, what on earth are you literally going on about? Whenever I hear that, I'm just like, no, sorry - I literally just don't have a clue, like, what you're literally actually trying to say, like.

Is it just me? My brain automatically switches off - they may as well be speaking in mediaeval colloquial Icelandic for all I'm going to understand them.

I've just realised that I even managed to mis-spell 'sirreverence' there - it still doesn't stop it from being the most hilarious archaic word ever, though.

I've never heard this one... but I hate
I went London, shall we go cinema instead of TO London and TO THE cinema.

daffodilbrain that’s an east midlands thing. I hate it too, but try to keep my trap shut and wincing invisible as it’s dialect.

Yeah , it’s up there with
“my friend borrowed me this top”
shudder

How about 'get XYV FOR free'? It's free or it's not, no need for the 'for'.

Valentimes instead of Valentines
Chimley instead of Chimney

I've never heard either of these but assuming they exist they may well just be the way the person speaks as much as anything. They are hardly worth getting into a tizz over.

On the other hand I have never come across in the real life the ghastly expression "gives me the rage" , for which I am grateful.

Give me the rage If you really must use this awful expression then it is "gives me the rage".

"Give me the rage" is the imperative- you are commanding someone to give you rage.

Can I make a case for restaurateur? No N. Not restauranter. Just seen it in a broadsheet newspaper. Bah

Are you complaining that restaurateur is wrong? It isn't.

Or this... I got this present off of such and such. OFF OF? OFF OF??? What's that all about!

Can I make a case for restaurateur? No N. Not restauranter. Just seen it in a broadsheet newspaper. Bah

Using 'restauranteur' is kind of like a French equivalent of saying that a place where bread is made is a bakery, so therefore, a person who works at the place must be a 'bakeryer' - you wouldn't simply call them a 'baker', because the place has a 'y' in it.

No, the root word is simply 'bake' and then each of the two associated words is built on that independently.

No, MissBarbary, I'm not saying restaurateur is incorrect but thanks for pointing out that it could read either way, I hadn't noticed the ambiguity. Confusion everywhere

Pupil, 'Can I lend a pen?'
Teacher, me, 'How kind of you, to whom do you wish to lend it?'

Pupil, 'Can I have a ruler?'
Colleague, 'Of course, George II or George III?'.

They soon stopped!

Oddly enough the pupils told me that I corrected more of their grammar than their English teachers did.

A thread full of people dunking on others who may have dyslexia. Very cool.

Bit late to the party but the way I remember is..
Brought = Bring
Bought = Buy

Oh bold fail!
Basically 'Brought' and 'Bring' both have an 'r'.

I hate 'gunna'.
It's 'going to'!!! Grrrr...

I don't like it when people say or type "defiantly" when they mean "definitely".

Defiantly - in a manner that shows open resistance or bold disobedience.

Definitely - without doubt (used for emphasis).

Or when people slur "deffflyy". And for some reason the ones that do it, tend to do it a lot.

Def-in-it-lee, it's not hard to pronounce...

@ whichomeofyoudidthat, a dd of 9 or 10 once said (after school tests), ‘English was OK, Mum, but I did really craply at maths.’

I wasn’t bothered about the crap bit, just chuffed that she’d correctly turned it into an adverb!

@BrendasUmbrella 9/10 that’s down to autocorrect .
Mine does it every single time and I’m more than aware they’re completely different words even if my phone doesn’t

@BrendasUmbrella That's because some people misspell definitely with an a instead of the second i (definately) and it autocorrects to defiantly.