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.

You’re very quickly becoming my favourite poster lol.

I HATE this!

Unbelievably, Richard Osman and his co host Marina Hyde do it when reading the sponsored ads on their podcast The Rest is Entertainment - 'This episode is bought to you by...'! They're both intelligent writers, I don't understand it at all.

I think you need to chill out a bit - you sound like you’re about to explode.

I suspect that sometimes you just aren't hearing the "r". It's much less obvious in some forms of English than in American, Scottish and Irish.

@unnumber have a listen to a couple of episodes. They say it right at the start (they take turns) so it won't take long.

😂❤️

My dad couldn’t say it either, “cert-ee-fik” is how he said it.
And my mum couldn’t cope with zip “an azip” she always said
it’s zip, mum
azip 🤣

Just to add: my particular bugbear is ‘of’ instead of ‘have’. It’s passable in speech as they could be saying ‘ve but written down it really bugs me. Aarrgghh it’s have! (Even spellchecker hates it and turned the ‘of’s to ‘have’! 🤣

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Where's she from? My mum used to jokingly say azoo, azed and possibly azip for zoo, zed (as in the letter) and zip as did my maths teacher. All from Dublin I think it's an old Dub usage?

Both Irish - yes, mum from Dublin!

That'll be it!

License is the American spelling.

Or told 'but I ain't done nuffink Miss' to which I replied 'exactly!'

With friends like that, who needs enemies hey!

This post truly cheered me up- hilarious!

😂😂 I have a friend who in text messages writes ‘your’ but she means you will!

A bit like how English speakers took a napple and a napron and decided that can't be right - you mean apple and apron!

THIS..!! I have never seen anyone using what the OP said…. But my fucking god…

“we just brought a new house”
no hun, you didn’t bring the house anywhere

It used to take all my energy not to correct people in comment sections…but now, I just breathe through it and scroll on. Still fucking annoying though 🤣

Cum instead of come, really gives me the ick.

What, even for the noun? How strange!

With 'licence'/'license' and 'practice'/'practise', I always have to take a moment and think about 'advice' and 'advise' to make sure I get the right one.

I always have to do the same and use advice/advise. But yes, in the US they just use the one spelling (can never remember which).

Yes, that poster is correct. AmE uses ‘license’ for both the noun and the verb. Confusingly they do the same with ‘practice’.

They could at least be consistent!

Although, to be fair, BrE goes from 'glamour' to 'glamorous', so we have our own issues.

We do use both advice and advise in the US. But practice and license are always spelled that way.

I can't stand when people write loose instead of lose, like "I want to loose weight". I could understand it if the two words were pronounced the same, but they're not.

Your for you're also drives me nutty and it's used everywhere, by intelligent neurotypical people. Why?