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.

The world would be poorer without usages like d'azoo

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g186605-d189068-r409357814-Phoenix_Park-Dublin_County_Dublin.html

I think younger, media-savvy generations know this applies only to Dublin zoo.

Someone told me about a similar habit in Bristol - a final letter in words like Tesco etc? Was it Tescol's? There is definitely something.

Sorry, yes, I meant for practic/se and licenc/se.

Skellington! Grr!

Ha, that's how I pronounced the word skeleton when I was five!

DH says it- it drives me mad and makes him sound thick.

I always get these mixed up!

But , I understand how annoying it can be ! For me I get a silly amount of rage when I see people write “collage” instead of “college” or “of” instead of “have “ ( I would of preferred …. ) and probably the most annoying “what” instead of “that” or “which” - like “ I did something what I wouldn’t have done “ or “ he got into the school what he wanted “ …. Urgh I hate it!

I've already explained this.
Do read the full thread.

Do read the full thread.

Plurals that really make me want to correct someone, although I never do:

Baby’s, family’s, party’s, etc. But you then also get people using the plural as a possessive - ‘The babies pram…’. 😩
And
Box’s
Bus’s
Christmas’s
Elf’s

Oh, trust me. I have.

nah it was very clearly ignoring people = “ignorant” behaviour

either way, could be a regional variation 🤷‍♀️

Can you be more "pacific"... AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
No I can't, I'm not the bloody ocean!!! 🤬🤬🤬

Right? People on this thread are proudly displaying their ableism and ignorance.

I read the full thread, doesn’t make it any less wrong…

“That begs the question “ meaning “that prompts the question” instead of the correct usage meaning to anticipate the answer of the question. It’s more often wrongly used than correctly.

Yes that’s another that sets off my internal intolerant pedant .

Presant?

Oh and anti-botticks ( antibiotics)

@GentleButter you’re on a very high horse for someone who can’t use ‘to’ and ‘too’ correctly 😶

My DH says that too , totally annoying

My DSDs often ask for 'stake' for tea 🤣

Most of these mentioned annoy the hell out of me too...

Will you borrow me? is one of my favourite peeves 🤣 and aaaarg... where, were wear... two, too, and to

However, reading this (for me, extremely funny thread) makes me grateful to have had a good primary school education and to be brought up in a 'well spoken' area so at least when I became a horrid teenager and spoke in 'slang', I still knew how to spell and form sentences correctly (hopefully most of the time anyway)... my DSDs didn't have that luxury and although bright and successful adults now... their sentence structure and SPaG is awful...

I'm good at translating poorly written English as I'm used to it but I do feel I am allowed to have a private scream (or laugh) once in a while! Like another MNs post, if you don't like the thread, buzz off 🤣🤣 😘

She has hasn’t she ? Which one are you looking at?

Yes that's the misuse I hear, not the other way around way round!

"I see it all the time outside of work to."

Oh yes!