It's BOUGHT not BROUGHT

[emma1103]

Am I being unreasonable to expect people to know the difference?

So often I'm reading about how people brought this bargain, etc. It just really winds me up for some reason.

I teach. Repeatedly remind pupils about this. I have a strong ocal regional accent but many of them don't.

I agree! I used to work in a school, in an administrative role, and often used to roll my eyes at the appallingly poor level of written and spoken English of most of the teachers.

In staff meetings, teachers used regularly to use phrases such as "please speak to myself or X..." and "me and my GCSE group will be .."

The use of commas instead of full stops and the erroneous use of apostrophes were very commonly occurring mistakes in written communications, such as letters sent to parents. Unfortunately, the writer was usually unaware that they had made a mistake. I can only conclude that they were never corrected at school. I used to wonder what my secondary school English teacher would have said, had I submitted something of the same calibre as these teachers' efforts for a homework assignment. It would, I am fairly sure, have been returned to me with corrections and criticisms written all over it in red ink and I probably would have been asked to rewrite it.

the misspelling of
accommodation
diarrhoea
weird
camhs

Comments like these can be really upsetting to the dyslexic people in my life. Just think before you post this kind of rubbish.

stationery pen
stationary car

My DD’s teacher does this, and in fact has a generally poor standard of written English as well as spoken English (despite it being her mother tongue). I find it genuinely shocking in a teacher!

This in spades.

We all have our strengths and weaknesses and some are more obvious at times than others. Ignorance towards things like dyslexia (because in a lot of cases this is what it will be) robs people of their self esteem when the irony is that people that criticise are trying to massage their own lacking self-importance.

One that really has me 🥴 is using went instead of gone. ‘I have went ’ that can’t possibly sound right to someone whose mother tongue is English! I think it’s more an American thing but surely people know when to use gone and not went. I’ve heard it so many times (mostly by Americans) that I ended up googling it and it’s definitely a thing there.

*low-key.

I always think of e for envelope as a way of remembering.

I'm dyslexic. Reminds me really that 99% of people view me as a thicko

My brain has a mental block with these two words......I have to check anytime I use one of them 😁

Oh god this annoys me. BROUGHT 😡

Minor annoyances: Mixing up few and less. Which loads of people do.

Plus saying “you’ve done good”, “you’re all doing good”. It just sounds horrid.

Saying “can I get a drink” to a waiter (American). My partner always says “yes you can, off you go!” To the other person’s bemusement normally.

I havent noticed any 'outrage' although you do seem a bit exercised by the thread. It's a discussion about the often irritating and common misuse of the English language. It's a valid subject.

Also it's AIBU which isn't noted for its delicacy where opinions are concerned.

If we’re going to be pedantic on here then I’d say not knowing when to use bare or bear as in ‘bear with me’ (not ‘bare with me). Think of unbearable. I don’t think anyone would spell it unbareable (at least I’ve never seen it).

The issue is that words have meanings. You can’t just use the wrong word, it means a different thing.

haven't 😉

Maybe they’re trying to get through to those who missed the lessons in primary school?
It is “superior linguistic knowledge” to them however much certain people might sneer.

The percentage of people that think you are have clearly not got a grasp of dyslexia and how it impacts on almost everything.

I have dyslexic DC, family full of them and colleagues. I'm in complete admiration of their creativity and ability to view things in a way that others can't...most of all their empathy towards others - that's lacking with someone this thread.

I'm sure I'm not just 1% on the population @BlueJellycat. It's really awful that this is how some people can make you feel.

FB marktplace where everyone now says ‘need gone today’ as if it is a complete sentence. It’s not.

*fewer.

Very interesting thread in Pedants' from some years ago now pointing out that the less/fewer "rule" isn't nearly as basic as those wishing to assert that less=uncountable, fewer= countable think. David Crystal agrees.

FB what?

I do think it’s bad form to correct adults (although I will always correct my adult kids). I’ll never correct a friend or someone over their errors but that doesn’t mean I don’t really really secretly want to 😁

Do you think?

I'd say they're protesting too much.