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.

I notice things like this (e.g. using "myself" instead of "me" sets me on edge).

I bet, though, that there are things I say that are incorrect or which grate on people.

I also bet that some people who make mistakes in their spoken/written English, would think I'm really thick about some things that they find really easy (i.e. I'm not good at parking, I can't rewire a plug, I'm pretty poor at quick mental arithmetic, I'm fairly ignorant about some major sports etc.)

So, YANBU to be irritated by the mistake, but YABU to hate people over this. Love the sinner, hate the sin!

PS I hope you are only correcting your DH and not others. Correcting people's speech is really boorish (but I reckon that like a lot of otherwise ill-mannered behaviour, it's kind of ok with family / at home).

Nooooo. I have never seen this!! That's awful

There was a sign up in a shop the other day with "brake" when it should have been "break". I REALLY wanted to say something but in the end didn't. Should I have mentioned it, Mumsnet Jury?

Well it is pronounced PEETA so maybe she pronounces it better than you do!!

One that I see a lot on here and makes me grind my teeth is 'invite' for 'invitation'. 'Invite' is a verb, 'invitation' is the noun.

Exactly, because it's the very kind that Katniss stole 😉

Well I've learnt something new today!

You are of course correct, however I have to admit that I prefer 'one pence' to 'one p' even though the latter is probably more correct.

And what's wrong with being a little bit Notlob!!!

Saying 'half past four' can cause problems if you're dealing outside the UK, in Germany half four means 3.30, ie half before four!

Just seen a live one - an Instagram account I usually really like talking about their project which is a ‘working progress’ rather than a ‘work in progress’.

You have to be careful how you correct children on this though, or you'll end up shouting, "Die!" at a bemused child across the classroom, as I have on more than one occasion...

Some Americans pronounce it theeayter. I don’t recall hearing a Brit doing it though.

Wonder round instead of wander round (Escape to the Country presenters)

"You'll be cooking for Gregg and I" (John Torode - why has no one corrected him?). Drives me up the wall.

This reminds me how annoyed I get when on Coronation Street the shop prices are shown as £1.25p.

I was taught in maths lessons, it is one or the other, never both.

I've made it very clear in my posts that I correct DH, but I don't correct anyone else because I don't feel it's my place to. I've literally stated that. I've also given examples of conversations I've had where I've kept my mouth shut about wrong words used by others.
My post was about people SAYING bought instead of brought. So many posters have gone on to get upset about spelling and grammar errors being corrected, which has completely missed the point of my post which comes across as quite stupid. SPaG was not what my post was about.

You've missed the entire point of my original post.
Yawn.

I often wonder where the “one pence” thing came from when “one penny” is clearly written on the coin.

SPaG stands for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar. Your post was literally about grammar. Grammar is grammar, whether it's spoken or written.

Sorry, who is it who is coming across as 'quite stupid'?

Because it is two pence, five pence etc and people sometimes extrapolate things wrongly.

Oh dear, OP, this thread seems to be making you angrier and more convinced of humanity's stupidity than you already were (quite an achievement).

I'm sorry, I did have a quick look through your subsequent posts before I wrote mine, but didn't clock that you'd said you only ever correct your DH and not other people.

I also see now that your DH "disagrees" with you about brought/bought... LTB!

Preparing for the worse.

Writing “suppose to” rather than “supposed to”.

My colleague constantly emails calling me "yourself " - arrrrgh!! She's in the comms team too!

Eg: "I've created a meeting invite for Jane, Roger and yourself"

I have to try REALLY hard not to comment.

Ha! My mum says "Two Nah" fish.

I don't like it either, OP.

Though down my list of dislikes. Over use of 'big' (all birthdays are 24 hours long), 'literally', 'super' feature more for me.

I think it is foolishly nitpicky to object to the term 'big birthday'. Obviously, your fortieth birthday isn't longer than your forty first, but it has more impact. It is clear that the word big is being used idiomatically in that context.