Page 6 | Why do people get bought and brought mixed up?

Starllight · 2023-01-30T07:41:26+00:00

A Monday morning irk of mine… Surely people know the difference? Bought - past tense of buy Brought - past tense of bring As a side note, where I now live in Scotland I have never come across anyone get this mixed up. Perhaps that’s why it irks me when I see it?! YABU - They’re both very similar and easy to get them mixed up YANBU - It looks/sounds completely ridiculous when people use ‘brought’ instead of bought

WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody · 30/01/2023 10:03

Plbrookes · 30/01/2023 08:19

How can you tell someone went to Cambridge?

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WiseUpJanetWeiss · 30/01/2023 10:07

I don't think this is really an education thing. It's accents and how your brain works.

Two very good friends of mine are primary school teachers. One is absolutely brilliant at SPAG (always has been) and insists there's a "spelling gene" - either you have it and it's all obvious, or you don't and you have to work very hard. My other friend is in the latter category and her brilliance lies elsewhere.

I'm great at SPAG (not so much at typing and dealing with autocarrot...) and have something approaching ticker tape synaesthesia, and my brain finds it difficult to understand how such (to me) obviously differently spelled and pronounced words can be confused. But other people are wired differently. I'm rubbish at anything other than simple mental arithmetic because I can't make numbers mean anything.

There are plenty of full homonyms with very different meanings - cleave (stick together) and cleave (split apart) being my absolute top favourites, so really nothing is off limits so nothing should be that surprising.

Pacific/specific and there/they're/their etc properly set my teeth on edge but muddling them doesn't make people thick, just differently wired.

And we all make mistakes. I learned very recently that equilibrate doesn't have an i after the r. I've been spelling and saying it wrong for my whole life. Doh!

Catnary · 30/01/2023 10:09

WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody · 30/01/2023 09:54

@Catnary

i think when I say those words, it's only context that informs the other person. I don't think they actually sound any different.

whereas bought & brought definitely do.

my phone changes quite a few things, it's going to get me into trouble one day! Especially when it changes shouldn't or wouldn't into should/would.did/didn't.

most of the time context makes it clear, but not always 🙈I see it on others post as well.

it changes to/too their/there/they're type things as well. I don't know why, it's bloody annoying!

How do you pronounce awesome & roarsome that they sound different?

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I can’t represent it clearly without using phonetic symbols, but “Roarsome” would have heavily rolled “r”s and “awesome” has no “r” sounds in it!

LaPerduta · 30/01/2023 10:15

Surprised no-one has mentioned "brang" yet.

MajorCarolDanvers · 30/01/2023 10:16

JanglyBeads · 30/01/2023 09:42

Which region, @MajorCarolDanvers and @Snowybeach?

* (I feel the need to apologise for the* typo in my first post: This should have been Thus!)

Couldn't tell you. I'm Scottish and my English geography isn't great. So best I can do is 'some regions of England'.

Catnary · 30/01/2023 10:16

LaPerduta · 30/01/2023 10:15

Surprised no-one has mentioned "brang" yet.

Ha ha of course!

WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody · 30/01/2023 10:17

Treacletreacle · 30/01/2023 08:29

Ive got then wrong before and had a smug friend point it out to me with past examples of when I have said it wrong. Has it made me remember to use the correct word? No it makes me have a mild panic when in conversation with her. Surely much better things to get bothered by in life..

@Treacletreacle that's no friend!

it's one think you kindly point out something, it's quite another to bring up a series of past mistakes. No friend should put you on edge!

Ditch the 'friend' & build back your confidence!!

TotallyAverage · 30/01/2023 10:27

Gosh all those cards that Roarsome Birthday never ever made sense to me! I have now said them in (my best attempt at) an English accent and they do sound kind of similar.

In my accent they are

Rrrrow-arr-sum

Awe-sum

WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody · 30/01/2023 10:31

EzzieM · 30/01/2023 09:19

Yes!

And clique / click

Peak / peek

I guess a lot of people don’t read enough to become good at spelling 🤷‍♀️

No, that's not the answer either. My best friend (known her 40 years now) is atrocious. SPAG just dreadful. Same education as me & parents similar to mine etc, she reads a lot!! She's always got a book to hand.

If I read something she's written 'in her voice' it reads perfectly, but it's far from 'correct'. She has a great job & is highly valued at her work place.

shes utterly fabulous & I love her a lot, the fact that SPAG is something she just can't do is irrelevant.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 30/01/2023 10:37

WWYD in this situation?

I used to have a colleague who regularly said e.g. ‘I rung her.’

She was very conscious of not having had the best education - her DM had forced her to leave school at 15 (allowed then) - she hadn’t wanted to at all, so I’m sure she’d have liked to know.
But I never said anything - too wary of coming across as a superior know-all.

ZeroFuchsGiven · 30/01/2023 10:38

LaPerduta · 30/01/2023 10:15

Surprised no-one has mentioned "brang" yet.

What is 'brang'?

LT2 · 30/01/2023 10:38

I don't think it's anything to do with intelligence or not reading enough (I never read but I think i'm a very good speller. My Maths skills on the other hand..😬). Even though I know the difference between their, there and they're I've still made the mistake when typing rushed (usually sending a second message seconds later correcting myself so the other person doesnt think i'm a fool! It's just easy to make the mistakes, whether you know better or not!

LT2 · 30/01/2023 10:39

ZeroFuchsGiven · 30/01/2023 10:38

What is 'brang'?

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People say it meaning 'brought', I think.

CafeCremeMerci · 30/01/2023 10:50

Catnary · 30/01/2023 09:51

Stop just repeating that she is wrong! You think she is wrong but I and others have explained that we disagree.

In my opinion it is entirely correct to say “I need to bring a packed lunch to school tomorrow”.

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@Catnary she is wrong though, as are you. Your opinion doesn't override that.

TheShellBeach · 30/01/2023 10:53

kingtamponthefurred · 30/01/2023 08:24

Some people don't read books and have never seen the word written correctly, and also don't think about what they are saying.

Most people don't read books.

SinnerBoy · 30/01/2023 11:05

Catnary · Today 10:00

I disagree strongly that you are correct!

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WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody · 30/01/2023 11:12

Catnary · 30/01/2023 10:09

I can’t represent it clearly without using phonetic symbols, but “Roarsome” would have heavily rolled “r”s and “awesome” has no “r” sounds in it!

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@Catnary

well, of course awesome doesn't have any R sounds!

Awesome Roarsome totally works on kids birthday cards.

same as have a purrrfect birthday does

my mistake thinking you had a reasonable reason why it doesn't sound the same.

WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody · 30/01/2023 11:15

LT2 · 30/01/2023 10:38

I don't think it's anything to do with intelligence or not reading enough (I never read but I think i'm a very good speller. My Maths skills on the other hand..😬). Even though I know the difference between their, there and they're I've still made the mistake when typing rushed (usually sending a second message seconds later correcting myself so the other person doesnt think i'm a fool! It's just easy to make the mistakes, whether you know better or not!

I've sometimes typed 'are' instead of 'our'.

I've seen others do it too.

id never write it, but speedy typing....

ZeroFuchsGiven · 30/01/2023 11:17

Catnary · 30/01/2023 10:09

I can’t represent it clearly without using phonetic symbols, but “Roarsome” would have heavily rolled “r”s and “awesome” has no “r” sounds in it!

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Do you pronounce 'Roar' and 'Awe' differently?

Butchyrestingface · 30/01/2023 11:19

ZeroFuchsGiven · 30/01/2023 11:17

Do you pronounce 'Roar' and 'Awe' differently?

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<blinks>

Of course?

Original poster

Starllight · 30/01/2023 11:21

WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody · 30/01/2023 11:12

@Catnary

well, of course awesome doesn't have any R sounds!

Awesome Roarsome totally works on kids birthday cards.

same as have a purrrfect birthday does

my mistake thinking you had a reasonable reason why it doesn't sound the same.

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In the Scottish accent it doesn’t sound the same.

How would you pronounce roarsome? I’m assauming rawsome? I would pronounce it roh-arr

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ZeroFuchsGiven · 30/01/2023 11:25

Butchyrestingface · 30/01/2023 11:19

<blinks>

Of course?

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😂I realised what I said there and it made no sense, of course they are 'pronounced' differently.

I meant do those words not rhyme?

'roar' to me rhymes with 'raw' and 'awe' but that may be my accent.

Catnary · 30/01/2023 11:51

ZeroFuchsGiven · 30/01/2023 11:25

😂I realised what I said there and it made no sense, of course they are 'pronounced' differently.

I meant do those words not rhyme?

'roar' to me rhymes with 'raw' and 'awe' but that may be my accent.

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No. they are not even close to rhyming in my accent.

Catnary · 30/01/2023 11:53

Roar rhymes with boar, shore, more, four

awe rhymes with saw, draw, claw, gnaw.

ZeroFuchsGiven · 30/01/2023 11:56

Catnary · 30/01/2023 11:53

Roar rhymes with boar, shore, more, four

awe rhymes with saw, draw, claw, gnaw.

Roar, boar, shore, more, four, awe, saw, draw, claw and gnaw all rhyme to me