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.

Maybe previously, you couldn't see the would for the trees

What REALLY gets my goat is how most young teenagers (and a lot of teachers can’t pronounce words correctly). I work in a secondary school and it’s so apparent spoken English has got very lazy…

eg

I fink instead of think (I want to scream there is a TH sound not a F sound!!!)

Free instead of THREE

Fought instead of THOUGHT

etc. I’ve noticed a lot of Londoners do this in particular…. Why? and don’t get me started on radio DJs who do it, I have to turn the radio off….. (sigh)

Sorry, my satire radar is off and I can't work out if you are taking the piss. Are you suggesting that th-fronting, a dialect feature of Cockney since the mid 19th century, is a new phenomenon in London accents?

Because it's one of the most difficult sounds for native speakers to acquire and assimilate when they are young children "learning" their own language.

It is one of the most common issues for English speakers, as any SaLT will tell you.

It's absolutely nothing to do with laziness. Presumably you don't also accuse your students with stammers or lisps of being lazy?

'I seen' instead of 'I saw' 😡
'Ain't' instead of 'I am not' 😡

How does your goat feel about people who can’t close parentheses accurately?

You can’t have only just noticed that Londoners famously use a ‘f’ sound in place of a ‘th’, eg ‘nawf & sahf’. Wait until you find out about ‘v’ replacing ‘th’, eg ‘muvva’ and ‘bruvva’.

Reading this in a nursery prospectus today made me think of this thread 😄 Pretty positive they mean ‘engaging with you’ - how we as a nursery engage with you as parents.
An absolutely gorgeous and impressive nursery though, I will be sending my child.
And therein lies a key moral of this thread really. Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face just because you’re a grammar pedant. People can be amazing and brilliant even if their SPAG is not perfect guys!

Pacific instead of specific 😤😤😤😤 makes me want to pull my teeth out and when people say I can’t be asked it’s ARSED !!!!!! There’s soooo many more but I’ll be here all night 🫣🫣🫣🫣

One that infuriates me is people writing 'women' when they mean 'woman'. So fucking illiterate, it makes me not take anything they have to say seriously.

I used to have neighbours (inc. a son of my age) who always said five-and-twenty. This was quite a long time ago, though. IMO it’s generally seen as archaic now, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that some old people still say it.
A granny of mine used to say, ‘Ooh, I was vexed!’ - that’s another word you don’t hear any more, or only very rarely. Though I did hear it some years ago from a relatively young man in the Caribbean.

Another thing that drives me mad - especially around Christmas - is elf’s on shelf’s!

Ditto scarf’s, etc.

And while I’m at it, a label on a supermarket butternut squash telling me to ‘half it’ before going on to do anything else.

My local big Asda used to be a picky pedant’s nightmare, with printed labels saying e.g. that rasers were now in the shampoo aisle*, or that New Zeeland Chedder was now on offer.

*amazing that they managed to spell ‘aisle’ correctly! ‘Isle’, as in supermarket, is one I’ve seen more than once on MN.

With a lot of patronisation.

Very sort after. 😬

Watching a well known word game show, and hearing the host say ‘you’ve went’ just set my teeth on edge.