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?

I wish it wasn’t perceived as mean to correct grammar. I think people should know the correct way to spell things. I’d always rather know if I’m spelling something wrong. I don’t think we should just accept poorer and poorer levels of spelling and grammar just because people weren’t taught properly in school or have struggled. It isn’t making fun or putting them down to show them the right way- it’s just showing them the right way.

I know a very plummy, well-educated lady who adds a K onto the end of all words ending ing.

Somethingk. Everythingk.

No.

Is it
I I bought it at the sho
I brought it home
..?

Been googling

I bought it at the show
I brought it home
@Samcro

Oh my god yes, I agree with - loose instead of lose and ect instead of etc. The one that gets me is turnt instead of turned 🤦‍♀️

I’m not British and have only heard about this misuse of bought and brought on MN.
To me, it’s the most random mixup of words. I’m so surprised it is as widespread as it seems from various threads on here. The world is a funny place

@JuanSheetIsPlenty i dont think it is mean, but it is pedantic. It depends how it is done and how frequently. I have lived with a teacher who has picked up any time I have pronounced a word wrongly or misspelled a word, a genuine mistake, not that I dont know how to spell or say it properly. It gets to the point that I am almost nervous of talking in front of a close family member because of it so it can become mean if done often enough and in a condescending way, which I feel a lot of people do

I hate when people say "learned" instead of taught. My sister does it often, but no where near as infuriatingly as my MIL. She constantly corrects his grammar, saying she'd hate for people to think "She never learned him how to speak English."

I'm with you op but like you never would correct them

My dh hates aks-he said recently someone said can i aks you something he said no thats not a word

I cringe when people write "wrapped" for rapt

I keep seeing ‘women’ instead of ‘woman’ for the singular on these forums, which perplexes me - do the same people also confuse man/men?

*his being my husband

Lend is the original meaning of borrow, which has remained in some dialects.

Old English borgian "to lend, be surety for," from Proto-Germanic burg- "pledge" (source also of Old English borg "pledge, security, bail, debt," Old Frisian borgia "borrow, take up money," Old Norse borga "to become bail for, guarantee," Middle Dutch borghen "to protect, guarantee," Old High German boragen "to beware of," German borgen "to borrow; to lend"), which is, according to Watkins, from PIE root bhergh- (1) "to hide, protect."

I have honesty never heard anyone get those 2 words mixed up. Bought means to buy and brought means to bring.

To be honest 'should of' rather than 'should have' annoys me much more... should've is fine but obviously the source of the error! I feel like mixing up bought and brought is an easy mistake to make.

Yes, I hate this with a passion!

I keep seeing ‘women’ instead of ‘woman’ for the singular on these forums, which perplexes me - do the same people also confuse man/men?

I just noticed that I did that in my post. No confusion or misunderstanding on my part. Just fat fingers, autocorrect, and a failure to proof read.

Drives me fucking crazy. It's not difficult.

Learned me/ learned him is another that is simply an older usage:

www.etymonline.com/search?q=learn

their there and they're etc don't get me started

as mentioned above, should of instead of should have etc.

I am a stickler for correct words and spelling etc and as for misplaced apostrophes, aaaaahhhhh, I even see the mistakes on professionally designed store signs!

However I have mastered the art of keeping my gob shut about it as got sick of being told I am a boring pedant so I am no longer that but thanks for letting me have a little moan here. To many examples to moan about (see what I did their), roll's eyes at ya.

@JuanSheetIsPlenty "carnt"? How else do you say it?

I meant people actually writing “carnt”.

But since you ask, you say Can’t. Because there is no r in it.

"carnt"? How else do you say it?
People who say words like bath and path with a short a also say can’t with a short a.

That's just a regional difference, not an error

It's really common for meanings to flip like this, where once they were an enantiosemy (enantiosemy or contranym is a word like cleave, which means to bind together and to cut apart - it means the opposite of itself -- so once did learn mean both to learn and to teach). Over time they migrate to mostly mean one side or the other (hold fast is losing to go fast, for example), but then there are these curious relics like people are describing.

Or sometimes they diverge but are cognate under the hood -- guest and host were once the same word, for example.