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 hate turnt instead of turned.
Chester draws. It should be chest of drawers!
Learnt instead of taught ie ""She learnt him to tie his laces."
Also hate famalam and holidays.
Hubs and hubby annoy me too.
There are many more!

Where I’m from a lot of people say “I seen that film”. I can’t stand it.

I love the recurring 'less V fewer ' joke in Game of Thrones @scruffydogstinks 🤣 always makes me laugh.

There's nothing wrong with "can I get", it's in the same category as haitch and gotten - taught as incorrect in England and so English pedants love to criticise it, but it's long been used and accepted elsewhere. It's very normal in Ireland for example as well as the US, probably Scotland too.

When you ask someone "what did you get for your birthday", you're not implying that they went out and bought the presents themselves. Can I get in a coffee shop is used in the same sense.

And I'll direct you to the hundreds of haitch Vs aitch threads on here and explain to you that haitch is equally correct, and the standard name of the letter in Ireland. So you can stop getting worked up about that one in future!

I've heard this and other double negatives in soaps on tv too. It's dumbing down when everyone should be aspiring to do better.

I have only seen this the other way round, so incorrectly using brought when they should have used bought.

I can’t add a screenshot but this is the exact wording from part of a Facebook comment I saw a few days ago on a holiday park guest page:

I was wandering about the rent shop an weather they would delver. If I have to collect and drop it they would brake. An can their be a fone in are shally. Last time I brought food at the ALDIs an it waisted so shall I of not took it? Do we get a pacific shally as soon as book or do we weight until are brake date?

There was so much more but it got deleted as every reply was just confirming the correct words they should’ve used.

Surely if you are unsure of the correct word or spelling to use, you’d check an online dictionary or thesaurus before posting!

Never heard that before. But seriously? Take a nap or something, getting so furious over something so small is worrying.

I don't hate the people but I do hate hate when people say it.

Its mildly irritating when someone persistently uses a word incorrectly because it can be distracting. But this applies equally, if not more so to me to the uses of silly phrases people adopt such as dog 'needs fed'; and oft repeated clichés, misused or used hyperbolically. However, very few people never make errors of language, and I would'nt want people to be hating (or 'hating on'!) me for mine.

This is my biggest pet hate, I work with a woman that says it I can't help correct her, no you bought it not you brought it. I internally scream and cringe at the same time!

That honestly looks like the work of a severely dyslexic person who has used autocomplete to give their best guess for each word. Using a dictionary to check literally every word would take them hours. I suspect that fifteen years ago that person wouldn’t have written any of that down: social media has really exposed the literacy difficulties experienced by adults.

They would have been better off using the dictate function on their phone.

my Biggest pet hate is when people say - on an evening - it’s ’in the’ evening, at lunchtime, in the morning, at night! Not ON A!!

Oh to be neurotypical 😂

I would also add that with the exception of ‘pacifically’ I bet every one of those words is a phonetically plausible spelling for their regional accent.

I loath

”i pacifically asked ….”

I resist the urge to reply “what not atlantically” 🙈🙈

That's awful. Imagine posting for advice about a holiday on FB and getting torn apart like that, the poor person must have felt miserable. Would it have killed people to just answer the questions or move past it?

Imagine adding insult to injury by having your post reproduced on MN for pedants to mock…

Maybe people have dyslexia or learning difficulties or just didn't enjoy school so didn't engage. Doesn't make you superior to them and you are sounding very superior.

I was taught, in Scotland, to say ‘may I have…?’. I hear ‘can I get..’ quite often nowadays, I assume it’s an import from the USA.

The mixing up of his and he’s baffles me! He went to he’s friend’s house. Aargh!! Only came across it since I’ve lived in the south though- think it’s an east London/ Essex thing particularly, written as it’s pronounced in that accent.

And don’t get me started on would of/ should of. And Chester draws!!

Both are correct but 'different to' is the traditional standard in British English.

IME, it’s usually the other way round (brought instead of bought) and also lend/borrow used incorrectly!

Using "pacifically" in place of specifically or Pacific/specific raises my blood pressure to dangerously high levels. One is an Ocean...ARGH!

Indeed, it's just nasty.