To actually hate people who say bought instead of brought

[GentleButter]

Why?
WHY DO PEOPLE SAY BOUGHT WHEN THEY SHOULD SAY BROUGHT?
It's unbearable.
I cannot bear it when someone says it.
I'm polite, so I have to use every muscle in my throat and mouth to stop myself from screaming "But you didn't BUY it! So WHY are you saying BOUGHT????"
It happens constantly.
I was in a meeting at work. Someone said "Yes, I bought this issue up the other day" internally, I screamed "But you didn't BUY this issue, so WTF are you saying you BOUGHT it?".
This goes on and on all around me.
Worst of all, my own husband says it, which is insufferable. No amount of me correcting him will make him understand the nonsense of saying 'bought' when he should say 'brought'. And he went to private school, so he was well educated and he still can't get it right. There's no excuse.

Presant is not a word though?

Calling all school holidays ‘half-term’ is so so stupid! I do feel disappointed with the literacy in this country.

And I knew someone who would explain their sickness absence with "I had a viral"

That makes me think of Still Game, where Jack & Victor are making videos for YouTube - and they talk about having 'gone virile' when they get 4 views!

What is theatre with a big A? theAtre? I don't get it?

Yes, so many people don't actually seem to realise that they've just requested that you join them in getting naked, when they say "Bare with me" !

Yes, it's when people pronounce it thee-A-tuh, rather than the more usual THEE-uh-tuh.

Why does it bother you so much? It seems like such an exaggerated response to something that makes no difference. It would be obvious from the context which one they mean. I never make this mistake in writing but in my accent and talking quickly, brought sometimes sounds like bought. Don't really understand how it affects you at all.

There are so many like that!
I saw, ‘to all intensive purposes’.

People must learn it one way and then never realise it is wrong. Like the well known ‘rest bite’.

I work with someone, who is about 20 years younger than me that I feel looks down on me, as I don't have a degree!. He has no commonsense . He keeps putting stationary when asking me to order things. One day I said you know its stationery don't you? Think envelope as "e". Totally ignored me so just let him get on with it now. Saw he put it in an email to someone quite high. I know my typing is not great on here but workwise it is. I have noticed lots of people on LinkedIn talk the talk but their grammar is terrible. No punctuation and using and at the beginning of a sentence. Brought and bought. My tip for that is think bring so it's brought with the R.

Clever people can be bothered by many things simultaneously. It’s a curse! I would love to be ignorant of all these errors. I do wish I were more like you. Genuinely (not generally).

This thread is hilarious. So many wannabe pedants getting their own posts wrong!
I bet the OP wishes they never bought it up.

Amazingly - there are different dialects and colloquialism throughout the UK.

And many of us are typing on devices that use autocorrect.

Some people don't speak English as their first language.

Others are dyslexic.

Some received a poor education.

But let's hate them all and sneer at them.

Personally, I hate it when someone is this pedantic yet can't punctuate speech accurately.

I've never seen anyone say or write bought instead of brought, it's always the other way round, which does boil my piss.

Oh, and when they can't use the correct 'plural'.

Your and you're.

It's really not that hard.

I absolutely despise people correcting other adults pronunciations or grammar "don't you mean ..........." yeah obviously you knew that so why stop the conversation. Just wipes of smug arrogance and a complete inability to understand that not everyone finds language as easy as you. I'm autisic and dyslexic, was non verbal as a child, the fact I'm having a conversation with you is a fucking achievement and battle but oh my I'm foucking sorry for missing an R out of a word.

That was the autocorrect on my phone.
I'd used the word pleural in a text to a colleague earlier in the day and my phone remembered it and switched plural to pleural when I posted my message here last night.

I'm glad you manage not to scream.

You might come across as overwought, doing that at meetings

Why do you despise them?
They are trying to teach the correct way of using our language. It's not a bad thing.

Not a fan of reading over your comments before posting? It would have autocorrected straight after you typed it, not as you posted it.

And what's your excuse for your constant errors when punctuating speech?

There’s a woman whose YouTube tutorials I watch for my hobby, who says eck cetera. I watch them on mute now.