Bought vs Brought

[Curiosity101]

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?

My dcs have really good SPAG. Is it because schools went back to teaching grammar and included it in the SATs?

Conversely, many of my friends and colleagues have a poor grasp on grammar. They don’t know simple rules such as less/fewer, your/you’re, lose/loose...Is this because many secondary schools in the 1980s and 90s did not focus on it?

The proliferation of ‘would of’, especially on MN, does make me despair.

My dcs have really good SPAG. Is it because schools went back to teaching grammar and included it in the SATs?

Yep - the problem with this is that lots of primary teachers don't know the stuff that well themselves (because they weren't taught it). Also, it's dropped like a hot brick as soon as SATs are over, and never mentioned in secondary school!

Drawrings is far worse than Emmer!

Using 'brought' instead of 'bought' is just thick. They are completely different very common words with completely different meanings that anyone should know.

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Mine does it every single time and I’m more than aware they’re completely different words even if my phone doesn’t

I can appreciate that, my phone likes to humiliate me. But I have heard people actually say things like "I am defiantly going to the hairdressers tomorrow". It makes me think they will have to fight someone first!

Yep - the problem with this is that lots of primary teachers don't know the stuff that well themselves (because they weren't taught it). Also, it's dropped like a hot brick as soon as SATs are over, and never mentioned in secondary school!

There's a lot of truth in that. It only takes one generation to not understand, value or care about something and then it's very soon gone forever.

I know that not everybody is good at everything and that some people have learning disabilities/difficulties that make things hard for them, but I'm unapologetic in saying that I fully expect a teacher to know these things in order to be considered suitable for their job. There's no shame at all in not understanding properly how a car works (indeed, most people don't), BUT if you don't, you should not expect to be given a job as a vehicle mechanic.

Using 'brought' instead of 'bought' is just thick. They are completely different very common words with completely different meanings that anyone should know.

I wouldn't personally go as far as calling people thick, but I can't understand it either. If you never get confused between 'fight' and 'fright', 'stain' and 'strain' or 'geese' and 'grease', I genuinely cannot comprehend why 'bought' and 'brought' would cause you any confusion.

Maybe people just mentally process words and sounds in very different ways. It would make sense to me that, to a non-native English speaker, 'bought' and 'brought' are simply two very similar sounds; but to somebody brought up from childhood speaking native English and for whom they didn't just learn the mechanical form and sound of the words, but also their clear context, then to me, mixing them up would be like saying "I wore my new houses when I went to look around some trousers".

Reading through this thread has made me realise how much irritates me!
All examples are ones I encounter in written form other than the first:

Hatch
"His" instead of "He's"
"Affect" instead of "Effect" and vice versa
"Should of", rather than "Should have"
"Except" instead of "Accept" and vice versa
"Role on [event, etc.]" instead of "Roll on..."
"Baited breath"
"On root" ( en route)
"Tow the line"
"Passed" instead of "Past"
"Aloud" rather than "Allowed"

I have friends who say "ax" for ask, and "haitch" - I just sit with clenched teeth. They write them correctly though, do it seems to be a regional thing/cultural thing for them.

One thing I’m pretty sure was regional but now seems to be everywhere, is e.g. ‘It needs washed,’ instead of ‘It needs washing’, etc.
It does irritate me, but then I’m a fully paid-up, nitpicking old pedant.

OTOH I do really like some regional usages,, e.g. ‘I’m just after... (doing something, Ireland) and ‘I should ha’ went...’ (Scotland) and the Geordie ‘us’ instead of ‘me’. Love the Geordie accent anyway!

Yes, there seems to have been a spread of quite niche regional expressions into wider usage. e.g. 'It needs washed' is Scottish and I've only ever heard Scottish people use it but am seeing it written down more and more. Also, 'I'm going town' which I think is from Essex / East Anglia and, 'I was sat' which I still always read in a Yorkshire accent.