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.

'Aks' instead of "Ask" and ALL the others. I am an unashamed pedant.

You’ve literally proven my point. Yes, dyslexia also affects spoken words. Substituting similar-sounding words is common. Dyslexia goes far beyond the words on a page.

Read a great article about this recently: https://theconversation.com/ask-or-aks-how-linguistic-prejudice-perpetuates-inequality-175839

In my experience scientists and engineers are often not comfortable with words and not very good with the nuances of language. They may have an Oxbridge degree but still struggle with verb forms. When you think you are having a conversation with an engineer, he will suddenly jump up to start drawing on a white board or an ipad. A mathematician will switch in the middle of a sentence to his code of formulae and calculations as if his life depended on it and he cannot have any truck with words. (It's usually been 'he'.)

On the train to work I'd sometimes see an engineer I knew well and found congenial. It was funny though that I'd be enjoying our discussion of some idea or other when he'd turn over whatever paper he had and start scribbling sketching a plan or image like a man on a mission. There I was thinking we were teasing out thoughts in words and the to and fro of conversation.

So you're hating on waiting on?

Got it

😂😂

This can be an accent this. NZers and South Africans for example. As and Es sound the same in a lot of words.

I once had a manager who said that.

His pronunciation of "tangential" was even better (or worse, depending on how you feel about it). He used to say "tan genital", which always conjured up an image of a bloke sunbathing with his dick out.

He was incredibly intelligent (a first from an RG university, top student in his Law Society exams, brilliant constitutional lawyer, seconded to the FCO to oversee the transition of a couple of former British colonies to independence etc), but he had a real blind spot about these two words.

Oh to have a life where this minutiae matters.

https://go.skimresources.com?id=470X1716091&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fask-or-aks-how-linguistic-prejudice-perpetuates-inequality-175839&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mumsnet.com%2Ftalk%2Famiibeingunreasonable%2F5046076-to-actually-hate-people-who-say-bought-instead-of-brought%3Freply%3D13441041

Interesting. I don't perceive it as a racial difference as most of the people I hear saying 'aks' are white - because of where I live.

Clearly you don't have a life that is above such things, or you wouldn't have clicked on the thread or posted.

I would be interested to know why people use the wrong word or pronunciation. If we exclude they were taught incorrectly and haven't thought to, or wanted to find out the correct way, do they think it is cute or interesting?

I heard Alan Bates today saying think instead of thing and it was painful as tbh I assumed it was youngsters. Having said that, Simon Cowell has been known to say somethink and as for Gary Barlow, on X factor he always said preformance instead of performance.

Thank goodness auto correct hasn't accepted any wrong spellings here!

That's accent/dialect. In the same way that some people say 'somefing' or even 'somefink'.

En route. It should be either the original French or the English on the way.

This reminds me of another half French and half English construction for the French word enclave which in French is pronounced 'onclav' but Anglicised it's nclave (non-nasal plain n and rhyming with gave).

Instead you get the French sound on hitched to the English sound clave, resulting in onclave, from the BBC correspondent.

When people pronounce the “at” in the middle. Irritating AF

I tell you all what would be helpful, if when you are telling us what is wrong that you also say the correct phrase. There is a couple here that I'm finding harder to recall and it would help not just me I'm sure. Thank you to those that have said the correct word.

FWIW, minutiae is a plural noun (so ‘these minutiae’). The singular form is minutia.

I am being slightly facetious and I understand the point you are making but I don’t accept that caring about clarity is the preserve of the privileged. A lot of the errors mentioned in this thread genuinely affect the meaning of what is being said, and it is often the people in the most vulnerable situations who need to be able to understand and be understood with the greatest clarity.

Lead instead of led. She led her dog, on the lead, round the lead mine.

One pence.

Pence is plural. You can only have two or more pence. If you only have one, it is a penny.

@StormingNorman

yeah we have all hit send at much the same time 🤣🤣

I have the same beef with 'envelope' as well.

Either say it with French pronunciation - 'ON-vey-loppe' - or with English pronunciation - 'EN-vuh-lope' - but so many people use a bizarre hybrid of 'ON-vuh-lope', and some of them ironically look down on people who logically choose to be consistent!

Talking of irony, the word that annoys me most of all for its very common mispronunciation is 'pronunciation', which you frequently hear as 'pro-NOUN-see-ay-shun'.

Also dice.

People say "throw the dice" even when there is only one die.

@PTSDBarbiegirl

that really bugs me too, I hear it a lot. I bit the bullet & explained the difference to my foreign god daughter, thinking it was her having picked it up incorrectly, but no we still have ground & floor, ceiling & roof all mixed up!

I had to choose the path of calmness with an ex, he'd do all of the above plus

we was

using fairly normal words incorrectly

in the end I couldn't cope with it anymore & he had to go before I completely lost the plot (although there were bigger issues too, but it certainly didn't help the situation!)

Where is my dyslexic tribe on here?!

Yes. Someone should tell the Scottish minister for finance it's one penny.