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.

I have a foreign student staying with me . She came in the other day and told me the dog had ‘gone potty in the garden’. ‘Oh god, what’s she doing?’ I said dashing out, in fear of what I might find. Sigh. She’d done a poo…

'Sicth' instead of sixth.
Oh, and 'spinnige' when they mean spinach.

I was in the field and fell on the floor.
NO, YOU FELL ON THE GROUND!
You were in the kitchen and fell on the floor, out in the garden you fell again on the ground...

This has triggered a traumatic memory!
I had a conversation with a much older female colleague, who was in her 60s and was very well regarded at work.
She said "I think we need to be more pacific when we include that topic in our speech". I just looked at her, dumbfounded. I thought "Are you talking about the Pacific ocean? What you've just said literally makes no sense at all". But I didn't say anything to her, in order to avoid her embarrassment. I just thought "Holy fuck, you're actually saying pacific instead of specific".
Later that week, she said, in an authoritarian manner to a junior colleague: "I pacifically asked you to use the one we discussed last week, so why didn't you?".
At this point, I had to go and lock myself in the staff toilet to recover.

I know someone who pronounces it 'covvid' with a short 'o' as in orange. I wish someone had corrected her 4 years ago too (I didn't know her then).

No, you're absolutely right, it's not a tricky concept to grasp. So why can't people grasp it?!

Also the dressmaker in me gets irritated when people call "fabric" "material". Its fabric. The material is what the fabric is made of.

I'm bias instead of biased.

@GentleButter there are loads of stupid people around who use words without understanding the meaning of said words! "can you borrow me a tent?" wtf does that mean? "I am looking for a chester draws" what the hell?? and the up and coming one which is beginning to creep through everywhere is "he was sat" !!!! absolutely dreadful lazy use of english language. where are yous going? is that even a bloody word?

And people who can't use apostrophes.... 😬😆 it's a typo I promise!

I agree it's annoying, but what about brang instead of brought, or writ instead of wrote? Not to mention the kid (native English speaker, no SEND) who asked me "Did you be there?" A lot of children aren't exposed to much standard spoken English outside of school IME. Forming plurals with apostrophes is annoying, but that's a spelling issue, not a language error. I know plenty of well-educated smart people who struggle with this.

My BiL allegedly can't pronounce prostate. He always says prostrate. How the hell the first is harder to pronounce than the second I'll never know.

My MIL pronounces Covid as 'Covis', as in the bread Hovis. God, give me strength.

What does your Husband say when you ask him?

A lot of people got 'furlong' during lockdown 😬🤣

I haven't really noticed people doing that but it would annoy me too. I find some of these things are regional. The one that gets me irrationally angry is been instead of being. 'the shopkeeper was been so rude' 'am I been unreasonable?'

I do this all the time op. I'm very well educated, know exactly which one means which but for some reason I have a mental block when it comes to saying the right one. Written, it's no problem though. It's always bugged me and I think that makes it happen even more.

I see this one on MN all the bloody time.

Brake instead of break e.g. "he shagged someone else when we were on a brake"

Argh!!!!!!

God help you.

I automatically but inwardly correct less and fewer, and mute point makes me cringe.

It's along the same line as with somethink. Do people think it is cute to be dumbing down. No. Just the fuck no.

I also sympathise as my DH pronounces a few words wrong. Like with the intonation in the wrong place. 14 years of my attempting to correct him and he won't have it. I don't think he can even tell the difference but I clench my teeth every time.

He argues at me that he's right and I'm wrong.

I understand your annoyance but I'd say that those who make this sort of mistake do so because they have been brought up by someone who also used the words incorrectly, therefore they have been "programmed" incorrectly from the start, let's say.
To learn something in the correct form in the first place is pretty simple, whereas to correct the way you speak is quite difficult.

HNRTFT but I can cope with bought instead of brought…toilet is my biggest cringe/ vomit…loo or lavatory please!