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.

She's explained why she despises them! It's right there in her second sentence!

Hang on GentleButter,
Wasn't it you who used the word 'hate' people?

‘Bare with me…’ is another that produces a silent scream here.

Ditto muddling break/brake, kerb/curb, and of course the endless your/you’re.
Anyone typing ‘ect’ for ‘etc’ can go straight in the naughty corner, too.

This one drives me insane and it's EVERYWHERE. All newspapers use it now, and I've just read three novels one after another where it was dropped in at every opportunity. It's all over Mumsnet. I think people honestly don't realise it's not just incorrect but nonsensical and the more it gets repeated, the more it gets 'burned in'.

'I was sat next to her.' 'He was stood beside me'. AAARGH! in fact, if you're really opposed to 'sitting' or 'standing', why not just drop the verb altogether? I was next to her. He was beside me.

I have an Austrian friend who is fluent in English and he never makes this mistake, nor many of the others mentioned here. I'm always telling him he speaks English better than English people do. He can do apostrophes too - even the 'trickier' ones. It's a miracle 😩

I said YABU because I feel that there's enough stresses in this world without adding 'how others cannot use language in the correct manner' to the list!

I do find it hard to believe that in this day and age there are people who still don't understand conditions like dyslexia and how they affect people daily.

It isn't simply 'muddling up letters when reading'.

Arks for ask. Kill me
Can you borrow me a tenner. Who shall I borrow it from then?
A packet of crisp. Why, is there only one crisp in the packet?
Loose for lose. Gahhhhhh

It's not the written word though is it? It's the spoken word here we are moaning about

Precisely.

people are moaning about both.

It's such a challenge being neurotypical

I have come across quite a few people who pronounce it ‘covvid’. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but they are all retired doctors 🤔

(Love your username btw. It reminds me of my late mother who was tickled by the phrase when she heard it used on TV - I think The Box of Delights? - and would use it frequently forever after)

Sneak peak
Dinning table
Borders when they mean boarders
boarders when they mean borders
Slamming on the 'breaks'

I remember the controversy that time when the Queen was filmed wringing a pheasant's neck - and the many people mischievously suggesting that she'd actually wrung a peasant's neck

Yes. I hate people who say the word bought instead of brought when they are talking about the past tense of bring, because it is literally the wrong word.
This poster said they despise people for correcting mistakes that other people make when they are talking. But they are being corrected because they are using the wrong words. So why despise being corrected if they are using the wrong words?
People are trying to teach the person who is using incorrect words.
If someone said something that was factually incorrect, the person listening would be well within their rights to correct them. So why can't people correct others who use the wrong words?

Here it's so often peak when it should be peek, or worse, peak when it should be pique!

I do love it when people see a thread that's clearly about something that doesn't interest them, so they take the trouble to participate in the thread in order to tell everybody on it that they shouldn't find it interesting and 'inform' them that they must stop caring!

I'm off to find an online forum for football fans, so that I can enlighten them that (to me) football is really boring, thus they are wrong to care about it and want to discuss it too!

Becuase it's not your job to point out everyone's faults and educate everyone. If people WANT to be educated on the way they speak they could seek that out themselves. To just decide that it's your right to go around telling people they're wrong is so rude and arrogant. It makes people feel uncomfortable having conversations for no reason, you know what they meant.

I remember laughing internally at one of my teachers who used "to all intensive purposes" back in the 1970s.

I presume she's just talking about Peter Cetera's less famous Scottish cousin Alexander...!

I completely disagree with you.
These people aren't going to seek out education if they don't even know they're making mistakes and getting it wrong in the first place.
If someone said something that was factually incorrect, another person would have every right to correct them.
The same applies to people being corrected when they use incorrect words. It's not rude or arrogant to do so.

'Her and her daughter went to the shop'.

The DF is notorious for confusing subject and object and possessive pronouns. I always assume that people I know doing this have limited their own reading to the DF and similar.

You may genuinely think you have a super power that means despite around 14 years of schooling, one post from you means that person will finally learn the error of their ways, and that you can succeed where all teachers, books and everything else over the years failed.

But in the real world it's just rude to pick at someone's spelling and grammar when that's not the point of their perfectly understandable post.

A lot of people over the years have said it puts them off posting about their problems, so stop 'marking their work'.

You genuinely think that by pointing out someone's use of the wrong word that you've now changed their speech and their life forever? No. They will continue to speak exactly how they always have. Becuase we don't all speak the same, not everyone is good at that. Could I teach you the correct way or solving a complex mathematical equation once and you'd remember it and apply it everytime you came across a similar equation? No. I could, becuase maths sticks in my brain and makes sense to me. You can teach me a word and it's gone. How well can you speak other languages? I know plenty of Thai, if I taught you to count to 20 once how many times could you repeat that correctly?

You're good at something, congratulations, there's also plenty of things you're shit at. But the rest of us don't feel the need to correct you. How would you feel if someone stopped you in the street and told you your dress sense was wrong, those colours don't go together. Your gait is wrong, you're not walking properly. Sit straight, you're slouching. A man at the gym stop your workout to tell you how you're doing it wrong. Someone stops you while you're getting some dinner to educate you on healthy eating and suggest some healthier foods you should eat.

You'd appreciate all these people stopping your day to point out your faults yeah?

It's rude to correct people when they didn't ask you to.

Personally, I don't really have an issue with people pronouncing covid as 'corvid' or 'covvid'.

The former is just how somebody with a certain distinctive Lancashire (or other various northern) accent might naturally say it - just like they would pronounce home as 'horm' or phone as 'phorn'.

As for the latter, unless you would honestly pronounce it 'coe-roe-na-virus' in full, how can anybody dictate that you must actively change the pronunciation of the remaining syllables when you remove others?