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.

Oh, and 'people' is plural, so you should have used 'drive' instead of 'drives'.

Re "been" and "being", it's probably regional rather than bad grammar.

Some areas say singin', walkin' bein' etc

Yes, being and been sound the same in many accents around me. I have a DD whose name ends in -ing but which many where we live pronounce -een, I don't correct it as they aren't mispronouncing it, they're just pronouncing it in their own accent.

I think of brought because you bring - they both have an R and bought because you buy it

Haven't read the whole thread so I don't know if this one has appeared but my pet hate is eg my son is 3 year old instead of 3 years old but I think it's a regional thing - sorry

Edited Now having started to read the thread I can see brought and bought have been explained far better than I did😂

The brought/bought thing drives me nuts. I assume these people have virtually never read a printed book or newspaper. Of course on mumsnet if you point it out you're a snob, or abusive, or mocking people with dyslexia or whatever. Also annoying: 'been' instead of 'being', 'are' instead of 'our', and more noxious of all 'a' instead of 'I'.

Affect/effect is more difficult because they do sound more or less the same.

For some people, being and been sound identical and our and are are very similar as well. If you will excuse affect/effect then you should excuse the others too.

Not when it's written down, it isn't. People don't write in their regional accents. I'm from Yorkshire but you don't catch me writing 'nowt' instead of 'nothing', although I might say it.

if they are saying it, how can you tell?

My pet hate is text or texted.

'Messaged' exists!

My MIL says perscription instead of prescription and phortographer instead of photographer. Drives me nuts especially since I actually work as a photographer! Also loose instead of lose makes my teeth itch!

Different accents, dialects, colloquialisms are joyful things in my opinion and should not inspire hate.

The sound used to pronounce "n+g" in a word are different from an "n" without a following "g", or a "g" without a preceding "n".

That's why "being" often sounds like "been". And why it sounds as though someone isn't correctly pronouncing the final sound in each syllable of a gerund. They are. It's our ears that don't quite hear it.

A bit patronising, don't you think?

Some things come easier to some. The English language isn't as simplistic as it seems, and old habits die hard.

Was you really upset? Me two.I think you done amazing to say so, and not loose your calm.
Me personally, don’t like people who advertise “draws,” when you arrive to buy them they are selling a chest of drawers, and not the big knickers you wanted.

Plueral?

I've had pleurisy twice - I wonder what the plural of pleurisy is 🤔

People writing loose when they mean lose drives me crazy.

I also can't bear the overuse of the word would when describe activities in the past. Every fucking past tense verb used with would instead of just the simple past....

Similarly, a conditional sentence such as "If we would have gone to the airport earlier we wouldn't have missed the flight", instead of "If we had gone to the airport earlier we wouldn't have missed the flight". You don't need fucking would in both parts of that sentence. Fucking hell. Fuck's sake.
I need to calm down!

I don't know why I have started to notice would everywhere but it is really ever present, both in speech and written texts. Why the fuck is it appearing all the time?

It's far worse than bought and brought (though they drive me mad too).

That's why I wrote "say".

I despise stupid people who start threads about SPaG.

Just another 'unpopular opinions' thread. Same old shit.

Of instead of have.

Usually coincides with people who hold their cutlery in the wrong hands.

It's fun when Muphry gets them, though! As he always does. The OP of this thread has made some absolute shockers.
Almost makes it worth it.
Weird though, isn't it...has to start a thread over bought/brought, yet can't spell "plural" or use commas. Funny old world.

This thread is making me chuckle I can’t stand want instead of won’t and he ‘arrksed’ instead of asked grrrraaahhhhhhhhh

Defiantly instead of definitely. I just don’t understand how grown adults get basic words so wrong. People with good jobs too.

The Cambridge Dictionary says this:

The adjective different means ‘not the same’. When we compare two or more items, it is usually followed by from. We also use different to, especially in speaking:
Adam is so different from/to his brother.
This house is very different from/to your last one.

I wonder why it would say 'especially in speaking' after the usual 'from'? That does rather suggest, at best, an 'informal' usage; and at worst, an incorrect one.

Others may disagree, but I understand this as part of the descriptive (and not prescriptive) nature of dictionaries, whereby if enough people get something wrong over time, it makes it in - not as proof of its correctness but simply as a record that this is what is commonly said.

I imagine that, in time, 'could of' and 'should of' etc. will be found in dictionaries as valid alternatives, purely by dint of the fact that enough people have consistently got them wrong. I believe 'literally' is already listed in dictionaries as effectively meaning either 'literally' or 'NOT literally'.

Maybe, in time, the word 'green' might be described as 'either the same general colour as grass OR a descriptor of anything of any colour that is the same as, similar to or absolutely nothing whatsoever like the colour of grass'! It does very much run counter to the whole purpose of language for communication and common understanding when words can come to mean absolutely anything or nothing at all.

Or understand phonology.

I’ve got an Etsy shop and am in some Etsy sellers groups. So many people say sells instead of sales eg I haven’t had any sells this month

Also a lot of people talk about their costumers rather than customers. It could be autocorrect I guess, but it happens so often I don’t know