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’ve just triggered a childhood memory of my mum’s hairdresser telling us a story about an experience of her driving at night and how the oncoming car “…had its headlights full-on bean. FULL-ON BEAN.” 😂

I fully appreciate it’s a whole different type of been, but it just dragged the memory from the recesses of my brain!

It’s worst the other way around.

”I brought some crisps at the shop”.

My inner pedant explodes with rage when people say this.

Oh yes.
The good old 'k' instead of 'ing' at the end of a word.
Give me strength.

Really?! Which region?

Thank you!!

Worse surely? 😉

@YeahComeOnThen No I haven't, but this helps massively. So thank you

@StormingNorman Thank you

I'm going to hope that "argues AT me" is a typo. 😂

I can't get two worked up about passed eras.

I haven't seen that version, the one I see is always people talking about the breaks in their cars!

This has made my night! I’m sure I’ll still be chuckling about that tomorrow.

License instead of licence is a very common one on MN.

Also people asking for advise.

I've only seen it the other way round from the OP but it makes me mad.

It isn't really something people say here so much as we all roll our rrrrrrs so bought and brought sound quite different.

I'm not sure how you'd differentiate between those aurally, but I'd say that far more people who mean 'tenet' say 'tenant' than actually say it correctly - e.g. 'a tenant of faith'.

If only my life was so boring that something as minor as this bothered me.

@GentleButter Dunno, I just always have done.

Also 'twelth' for me. Susie Dent was talking on Countdown once about silent letters in words, but she included 'f' as in 'twelth'.

It's not officially accepted as 'silent', just because some people are too lazy to say it! You might as well say that the last four letters of 'brother' are silent, just because of the tendency for many to shorten it to 'bro'.

Also, the 'spinnige' one could be quite moot (not mute!) in Norfolk's only city: it seems to be 50/50 "Norritch" and "Norridge"!

Shoes with “heals”, cars with “breaks” and people being given “free rein” or “lead” to believe things are all too frequently seen… Oh and eyeshadow “pallets”.

And the heals on their shoes

“I don't understand why people don't want to make any sense when they speak.”

But they think the way they’re saying it is correct so to them it does make sense??

Also there is no way when someone says “I brought those shoes from new look” or whatever you don’t understand what they’re saying. It still makes sense.

Honestly OP you sound like an insufferable snob.

I used to have a friend who said adverse for averse and it really irrationally irritated me - “I’m not adverse to it”. It’s the fact they recognise the word, sort of, but they don’t know what the word actually means.
She also used to say chorritzo for chorizo and all the usual things people, get wrong.

Aagh, I meant “free reign” (which keeps auto-correcting to “rein” for some reason)

Me too. Lead instead of led. Prostrate instead of prostate. And ‘me and my friend’ instead of ‘my friend and I’. Even where using ‘me’ is correct, it shouldn’t come first.

Even Neil Diamond sings 'brang' in his song 'Play Me' - presumably because it makes it rhyme; but it also makes it WRONG!!