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Am I the only one who wound up by this!

182 replies

Mummytotwogirls01 · 03/03/2022 20:57

I know I probably am BU but it really winds me up how people use 'brought' instead of 'bought' -the verb to bring and to buy are completely different and have different meanings it's not hard to use the right one!!
The other one that really winds me up is how a lot of people use' I should of' instead of 'I should have' -of is not a replacement for have it's just wrong!
Is it just me? What other common errors annoy you?

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Ownedbyabeagle · 04/03/2022 01:26

@Bintymcbintface

No it winds me up to and I have to fight the urge to correct it, each and every time.
To or too?
etulosba · 04/03/2022 01:29

I think that I am probably in a minority of one, but I would rather have my mistakes pointed out.

RobertaFirmino · 04/03/2022 01:30

Alot. The amount of people here who think this is an actual word is shocking!

Also, 'bring' when it should be 'take'.

DoorWasAJar · 04/03/2022 01:31

In principal
Nucs (to means nukes, I presume)
There/their/they’re
Grocer’s Apostrophe

I’m not a native English speaker though and due to being self taught, I get things wrong too ☹️

I’m not entirely sure how one is meant to use who/whom, I will look it up now! I haven’t even finished high school but I used to read the dictionary for fun so I’m always willing to improve my knowledge.

Tlollj · 04/03/2022 01:42

I was at a first aid course recently. The instructor ‘brung’ some forms to fill in. 🤪

ihatesoaps · 04/03/2022 01:47

Your when it should be you're...

Defiantly instead of definitely

PleaseDontDriveMeBlind · 04/03/2022 01:47

When I say "should've", it sounds like I'm saying "should of". It doesn't sound like a "V" sound, it's closer to "F". I guess, a "soft V" sound.

"Have" also doesn't have a hard "V" sound when I say it, it's something between "V" and "F".

I write "drawer", but it sounds the same as "draw" in my speech.

Unless I am using my telephone voice, I don't pronounce the dark "L" in words such as "hall", "milk", or "hail". These words end up with a sort of "W"/half vowel sound:

"Hawh" / "Miwhk" / "Haiyowh"

I am not a linguist, that is the closest I can get to how they might sound.

I also use grammatically incorrect speech. "I seen you do it yesterday".
"What did you think of them people".
"I done it last week".

I am aware they are wrong. I only really speak like that with friends, family, partner. It just comes out naturally with them. I do speak correctly on the telephone, speaking with DD's teachers and other parents at the school, anyone I presume is "better" than me, people I don't know well, when reading out loud or reading bedtime stories to DD. I have a "posh" voice (not Queen's English posh, just more reflective of where I was raised in Surrey, I guess "posher") that I can switch into when I feel the need. Often code-switching just happens naturally.

The same way I use "innit" with friends and my DP, but wouldn't use it at parents' evening.

Speaking "properly" just doesn't flow from my brain as naturally for me. I can write it all correctly though.

I say I can write correctly, there are probably grammar mistakes in this comment.

PleaseDontDriveMeBlind · 04/03/2022 01:51

Defiantly instead of definitely

I quite enjoy this one.

"I am defiantly cooking cottage pie tonight" Grin

PyongyangKipperbang · 04/03/2022 01:59

Would of/Could of etc is easy to understand though. Would've/Could've sound like Would of etc so if a person has only really hear those words, its understandable that they may get them wrong.

However.......dove insted of a dived drives me barmy. And led instead of laid/lay...."We got home and I led down for a nap"

PleaseDontDriveMeBlind · 04/03/2022 02:16

I found this interesting, re "dove":

"Dived is the traditional past tense and past participle of the verb dive. But the newer dove, which probably came about by analogy with similar words like drove and wove, has been in the language approximately two centuries and is now standard in American and Canadian English. Outside North America, where dived still prevails by a large margin, some might consider dove wrong. According to this ngram, which graphs occurrence of the phrases he dived and he dove in a large number of American books and periodicals published from 1850 to 2019, dove has recently overtaken dived in American writing."

HereIfYouNeedMe · 04/03/2022 02:17

'How is he doing?'
'His good thank you'
It's HE'S!!!!

PyongyangKipperbang · 04/03/2022 03:05

However.....been thinking and my biggest bug bear bar NONE is the person who will read a thread by someone who is clearly struggling and then be utterly unhelpful.

"TLDR: My STBXH beat me, neglected our children, robbed several banks and killed his mother. AIBU to tell him to fuck off when he asks to lend some money off of me for his appeal?"

"I think you mean BORROW and dont get me started on 'off of' :o "

SummerRain41287 · 04/03/2022 03:23

I could have written this myself. It's my pet hate. To have 'brought' something is to 'bring' something. To have 'bought' something is to 'buy' something. What on earth is so difficult to comprehend? Oh and as pp said, 'his' instead of 'he's' or 'he is' just sends me into orbit Grin

Tenji · 04/03/2022 03:37

@cantbecoping

Draws!!! I put them in the draw! Chest of draws. The draw was stuck. Knicker draw.

The word is DRAWER!

Arrrghhhh!

even worse is 'Chester drawers'
fmpc · 04/03/2022 03:58

Bear/bare

Eg
I can't bare people using this version

It's bear not bare

SummerRain41287 · 04/03/2022 04:47

@Tenji this! Chest OF drawers Confused Like, come on. How difficult can it possibly be? Google is everybody's friend.

SummerRain41287 · 04/03/2022 04:49

@fmpc

Bear/bare

Eg
I can't bare people using this version

It's bear not bare

Funny story actually, I've been saying "Bare with me" to my sister for the longest time. The other day, she corrected me and said "you do realise that it's 'bear with me', right?". I felt like an absolute plonker Grin So for that one, I am definitely guilty.

Or should I say 'definately' Grin I despise that one!

FlyingGeeseAgain · 04/03/2022 05:04

‘Excited for’
Draw instead of drawer
Lots of made up words that don’t exist
Bare with me

slashlover · 04/03/2022 05:19

When I started at my job, I changed some of the signs because DVD's and CD's annoyed me so much.

WutheringHeights66 · 04/03/2022 05:24

Off of.

“He took it off of me”

No he bloody didn’t, he took it from you.

Maybe this is a regional one, but I hear it lots in my Yorkshire hometown and it drives me to insanity.

WutheringHeights66 · 04/03/2022 05:26

Rediculous is one I see on MN all the time.

FatOaf · 04/03/2022 05:34

"Lead" instead of "led" and "loose" instead of "lose" are two that have almost completely driven out the correct versions.

Riapia · 04/03/2022 05:45

Smell instead of stink.

Posh woman. “Sir you smell.”
George Bernard Shaw. “ No madam you smell I stink.”

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 04/03/2022 05:46

@TonkaTruckduck

The thing that annoys me most is myself used incorrectly e.g "fill the form in and return it to myself". Makes the users sounds absolutely stupid, but they think they sound very clever.
This!!!!

Also “fruitition” rather than “fruition”.

UniversalAunt · 04/03/2022 05:48

Chester? You know, where the drawers come from.

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