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.

It's been explained many times.
Poor education. Poor cognition skills. Dyslexia. Etc.

Am I the only one here with 'If It Wasnae Fer Yer Wellies' going around in my head?!

If you think definitely is spelled definately (not a big spelling mistake), then autocorrect will often change definately to defiantly.

Yes, that's what you would assume. I wonder who the first person was who decided arbitrarily to make 'text' its own past tense, without the expected 'ed' suffix? Unless people somehow think that the verb is 'to tex', in which case the past tense would sound like 'text', but surely you would then spell it as 'texed' to be consistent?

I also rue the near-loss of the comparative in modern-day speech.

I remember in my DS's first week at school, seeing a table display with a drawing of two worms - one shorter and one longer - and the question "Which worm is the longest?"

You hardly ever hear of children in two-child families these days referred to as 'the younger' or 'the elder/older one'.

Draw instead of drawer......aaarrrgghhhh

It blew my mind when I heard someone use ‘ignorant’ to mean they felt they had been ignoring someone. As in “I’m sorry for being ignorant and not replying to you.” Well, quite!

I used to be an apostrophe vigilante but eventually realised life’s too short and I hung up my anorak.

If this is all you have to worry about in life, think you are doing pretty well.

Surely they meant ignorant as in rude, which is an accepted meaning?

My pet hate is the word specific. Even TV presenters can’t seem to say it correctly, and start talking about the Pacific Ocean for some strange reason!

They actually say:
"To give a Pacific Ocean example...". ?
Do you have a link? I'd like to see this. It would be interesting for a study on why errors are made.

Lots of people will have started doing it independently, because they were all triggered by a real language rule - xted endings rarely / never happen in English. And then, -t is an alternative past-tense marker where -ed doesn't seem right. And then - but -t never adds another syllable when it's used that way.

We don't learn our native language by learning rules about grammar. We learn them by absorbing and reproducing patterns, which gives a 99% fit with rules in grammar textbooks.

It would be interesting to see the first use but I suspect impossible to identify. Changes in language usually happen for reasons affecting lots of people simultaneously, and that helps them to spread and stick.

Finding this “unbearable” and hating people for their grammatical errors is a bit strong isn’t it? Plenty of other things to find unbearable and hateful in the world other than this☺️personally I find the use of loose instead of lose irritating but I don’t dwell😊

The recent trend for interchangeable use of worse and worst (and indeed the reversal of the previously understood meanings) is my niche item of common contemporary usage to be annoyed about.

Some people struggle with things, some people do not. This poster has commented they struggle with them which is very honest, there is no need to question why or make remarks that it's so easy. I hope you don't struggle with anything in life.

I was forever being asked 'Can I lend a ruler Miss?' to which I would respond 'Of course, to whom do you wish to lend it and note the use of 'whom' '!
A colleague when he was asked 'Can I have a ruler Sir?' would usually reply 'Yes, will Queen Victoria do?'
We never even tried to correct the can/may confusion.

You know what drives me batshit?

Hollibobs. Grown adults saying Hollibobs. AAARGH.

Oh and in Lancashire the sheer amount of people saying Manklepiece, Bokkle and Hospikal ... in my head I'm screaming.

Top of the list is people that genuinely believe that the word is Trickle Treat for Halloween candy sourcing.

facedesk

Um, the words mean two utterely seperate things. Educate yourself.

Ignorant does not mean rude.

not having enough knowledge, understanding, or information about something:
"Many teenagers are surprisingly ignorant about current politics.
Blissfully ignorant of : We remained blissfully ignorant of the troubles that lay ahead.

NRTFT but…

’he’s’ instead of ‘his’

‘my son loved he’s dinner’ 🤮🤮🤮🤮

I absolutely know what the two words mean, thank you. I was commenting on the comment made on a different post.

Educate myself, I educate children so please keep your comments to yourself when you have got the wrong end of the stick.

Um. If you read further down the Cambridge dictionary definition of ignorant, which I presume is what you meant to link to, you will see:

UK informal
not polite or showing respect

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ignorant

Tret sounds like a Yorkshire thing, my late MIL would say it but I can guarantee that she would not have written it!

If you're going to be so rude and supercilious, you could at least spell the words 'utterly' and 'separate' correctly.

Educate yourself!

Totally one of my most hated things too