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?

Not regional just lazy

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Would you mind explaining that a little more - I get confused with "that would be nice for you and me" versus "that would be nice for you and I."

I also struggle with the "myself and my team", I just avoid this and would put "me and my team" but is it ever right to use myself, yourself etc?

Affect and effect is the same, people interchange these words

@InFiveMins
That would be nice for you and me - correct. (Subject of the sentence, the thing that does the verb, in this case “would”, is “That”. It cannot be you and I, because “I” is always a subject pronoun and “I” is not the subject here.

Both “myself and my team” and “me and my team” are very incorrect if you mean them to be the subject, the thing that does the action or verb. The subject pronoun is always “I”. “Me” is an object pronoun. It needs to be “My team and I achieved the goal.” The correct form is always to put “I” last in the list- my team and I. Never I and my team.

If it’s “The boss gave the award to my team and me,” that is correct. The subject here is the boss - the one doing the action, who did the giving - and not I. Again, it has to be “my team and me”, not “me and my team”. Always put yourself last in the list.

“Myself” cannot be used in either example, as it is not a subject or object, direct or indirect, of a sentence. It makes no sense at all. It’s used reflexively - I washed myself - or perhaps for emphasis or clarity - I won the award myself, I myself won the award. But you can’t use myself on its own without “I”. Similarly you can never use “yourself”.

Subject pronouns are - I, you, he, she, it, we, they.
Object pronouns are - me, you, him, her, it, us, them.

@ivykaty44

But they’re not the same?

But they’re not the same?
No, affect and effect are not the same at all. They mean very different things.

''Can I get........'' when asked of a shop assistant

No , You cant get, that's my job. I get it for you.

''Please Can I have.........''

Why does the first ( incorrect) always seem to be missing the Please. as well?

Pentium85

What do you mean when you say that, they are not the same?

Affect is not the same as effect,

www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/affect_effect.htm

People saying or writing "draw" for "drawer"

Effect and consequence are interchangeable, if consequence doesn’t work then you probable need to use affect

I HATE THIS!!!

One I hate:

"Thomas forgot he's coat."

• His coat. HIS!

And the flip side:

"Thomas left it because his forgetful."

• He's (or HE IS!!)

I live in the South East and this one I hear all the time, even from extended family members. Surely it's not that difficult? I would want to know if I was getting it wrong!

Effect and consequence are interchangeable.
Not always. You can use effect as a verb, and consequence is never a verb.

daisypond I know, but it’s a fairly easy rule to try and remember for many cases. I before e doesn’t always work, receive and their are examples

The Governments intends to effect radical changes in ....... (every P.M says this)

Yep this is a constant pain in the bottom for me along with a few other similar sounding words - dyslexia sucks when trying to proof read (not a joke it really sucks).

it’s a fairly easy rule to try and remember for many cases. I before e doesn’t always work, receive and their are examples

The rule I was taught was "i before e, except after c"- which obviously still doesn't catch "their" or "heir" or many other words.

Axed, also the original pronunciation! So long ago we are talking Anglo Saxon, not even English. The words was acsian. That's why it remains in some dialects and also keeps being re-imported from Empire dialects.

Chaucer uses it.

Were and where mix ups drive me potty - were are you going, we where going to the pub.....arghhhhh

Yes, I agree. I simply can’t understand why people get mixed up with brought and bought. They don’t even mean similar things. Affect/effect I understand the confusion.

I absolutely HATE it when people refer to women as FEMALES. It sounds derogatory.

Yanbu, it's very annoying op!

"Could of" is even worse. Appears on mumsnet a lot.

What get me is when people say "them ones" instead of "those"

Your instead of you're

There instead of their

“Phased” instead of “fazed” is one I see a lot on here.

Brought instead of brought makes me cringe, but I see it all over the place online at the moment. Weirdly, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it in RL

How about practice and practise? I'm still never 100% sure on that one as both the verb and the noun(?) can be used in some circumstances:

"Introduction of nurse practitioners: Changing medical practice"

vs

"Introduction of nurse practitioners: Changing medical practise"

Both arguably work, right?