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 DC had maths work recently which said, "Mary brought a dozen eggs from the farm shop for £1.98..."
DC (9) asked the teacher why it didn't say 'bought' and was told to leave the grammar alone.
This was in a pre-printed learning resource.

I understand pronunciation differences, and I understand that the spoken word and social media are not platforms for grammar pedants, but materials for education and information really do need to be corrected written.

I once saw a teenage girl wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "I'm silently correcting your grammar" and just had to tell her how much I loved it. I never say a word about anyone else's usage in RL (or correct anyone online) - but I notice it every time.

Pacific instead of specific

Homones instead of hormones

*I know a woman called Linder.

I was expecting a limerick to follow.*

There was a woman called Linder
Her parents met on an app called Tinder
They looked like shite
But both swiped right
Their lack of spelling was no hinder

@ InFiveMins - 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."

The easiest way to remember that one is to construct the phrase the same way you would without the other person. So as you would say "that would be nice for me", not "that would be nice for I", you would also say "that would be nice for you and me" rather than "that would be nice for you and I".

I have to say, that is one that really irritates me and it's everywhere.

Skittlesss

I can't help but notice and internally sigh at

Alot
Abit
Ect
Bring/take the wrong way round
Is/as when it his/has
All of the ofs instead of haves

I know it's not cool to be bothered by poor SPAG but it does bother me and I see I'm not alone based on this thread.

The one that has most depressed me is "substitute X for Y" when "substitute Y for X" was meant.

This was the science editor of a national newspaper, who, after some discussion had confirmed to me that she had published a sentence saying the exact opposite of what she though it was saying, flat-out denied that there was anything wrong with what was written.

If an editor on a broadsheet can't get grammar right, even after an error has been pointed out, and when the error results in their sentence having the exact opposite meaning to what they intended, what hope is there for grammar anywhere?

@daisypond may I ask you to please summarise the rules around will, shall, would, should.

As a side point, I love some people's user names. Goldengroveunleaving is from that wonderful Gerard Manley H poem isn't it? And yesterday I saw a poster called Itswrongtowishonspacehardware which after some thought I traced to a Billy Bragg song 😀. There is also a poster called Gasbluewithlavenderbeads which is a Great Gatsby ref 👏👏👏

Whoops notajogger I spelt a lot wrong I don't normally. Obviously if you type more than one person you would put the childrens' toys.Or it could be say John's toys. If the person has an s at end of name what would you do ie. Would put Lewis' toys or Lewis's toys!

I can cope with Likkle for little

Can’t!!

stationery/stationary for me

E for bloody envelopes, it's not hard.
Once worked somewhere where the (degree educated) person that did the weekly stationery order insisted on using stationary in her emails, even after I'd mentioned it v v politely; she said she preferred 'being different'. I refused to order centrally, and ordered my own stuff.
Local post office that would be incredibly useful for Amazon pickups - can't bring myself to use it because it has Stationary in foot high letters plastered over the window in the list of items it sells.

I was mortified last week; I submitted something, then realised I'd mispelled discreet. On rereading a hard copy I noticed bloody autocorrect had amended it to discrete.
I'd been checking spelling and grammar on the document late at night and couldn't read autucorrect suggestions properly.

I buy - I bought

I bring - I brought

'Can I get........'' when asked of a shop assistant. No , You cant get, that's my job. I get it for you.

yeah, try that one in Lidl

The one that I keep seeing everywhere at the moment is “advise” instead of “advice” e.g. “Looking for some advise!”. I’m not a grammar nazi by any means, but surely this is very basic English? The same as too, two and to? Or where, were and we’re? I keep seeing educated professionals consistently make these mistakes on Facebook and I just don’t understand how someone can pass a degree in teaching or nursing as an example and still not understand how to correctly use these basic words?

ugh, that grinds my gears!! and 'loose' instead of 'lose' is another. arghh 😂

Principal used instead of principle seems to be very common. Dh had to get a promotion to stop people referring to him as a principal engineer rather than a principle engineer. Colleagues of his actually have business cards stating they are a principal whatever.

I do get worked up with posts that are just a stream on consciousness with no full stops but I just don’t read them and move on.

Agreed! I quite often open a thread that seems interesting and to which I might be able to contribute, but I find that within a few lines the poster's bad English makes it hard to follow what they're on about, so I think "sod this" and move on

Principal and principle have different meanings though. I don’t imagine your DH was actually a principle engineer!

So, quite justifiably, they would regard your intervention as patronising and pointless. People know if their spelling and grammar are poor, they really don't need you to pont it out.

So why does this not apply to other corrections of mistakes like I described above? (the New York/Washington DC confusion)

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?

No. The noun is spelled with a 'c' and the verb is spelled with an 's'. The example you gave uses practice as a noun, so must be spelled with a 'c'.

'Changing medical practice' - practice is a noun (thing).

'You must practise playing your violin' - practise is a verb (action).

I know a young woman called Linder
Whose husband fell out of the winder
I'm quite pleased, she said
That he fell on his head
As I'd just found his listing on Tinder

Infants taught to say "ta". Doubtless they will be the adults who could of been learnt better. Ouch!