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.

That's fair enough, but how does one reach 21 without seeing the word "chimney" written down?

Don’t worry, it doesn’t bother me either. What usually happens on these threads is posters express their irritation with incorrect SPaG, they are then corrected by other posters…

…and everyone realises that no one is perfect and we are all capable of making mistakes.

It’s funny watching it all unfold though 😂

My dear late mil used to say sustiificate instead of certificate. 😆

"see it all the time outside of work to. An apostrophe instead of a pleural spelling."

@GentleButter Are you fucking with us now!

🤣🤣

I think they must be the same people that moan about others calling all school holidays half term 😂 instead of summer holidays, Easter break.

I always read it and think honestly who gives a fuck.

I find that it is usually the other way around, and yes, it's infuriating!!

This has really tickled me.

I work in the family courts and there’s a solicitor who says “pacific” instead of “specific” except when making an application for a Specific Issue Order, the existence of which you’d think might give her a clue about the correct word. Yet even though she understands it’s a “Specific Issue Order” she will still talk in court about the pacific aspects that her client is seeking.

drives me potty to listen to it.

Hadn't heard that OP, but I become murderous when someone says, "I seen..."

@scruffydogstinks is material a generation thing? Even though it doesn't make sense. My grandma's age group all said it.

Free rein is correct.

Brought used interchangeably with bought is regional, definitely a Midlands thing.

Hand on heart it’s the most irritating thing about living here as an incomer. Every time I hear another “I brought this ….” another bit of my soul dies. I despise it beyond measure.

'Different TO' always hugely annoys me. You'd never say "It differs TO that", so why say "It's different TO" rather than from?

Aargh yes!

🤣🤣🤣🤣 fair one!

I've posted this before but it's worth further dissemination! The loathed head of OFSTED was on Radio 4 years ago decrying standards in the teaching of English and he said 'Me and (someone else) were told............ ' , I prayed silently for the interviewer to pick him up on that but sadly he didn't. Mr Humphries, you let us all down.

That just brought back the one we were taught at school - never say "different than". (Australian primary school in the early 70s).

Brought used interchangeably with bought is regional, definitely a Midlands thing.

In an exam it would be considered wrong though, the examiner doesn't know from where the scripts originate.

Ashume and pacific.

NO!

Assume and specific.

Or, "un-thaw." As in, "I took it out of the freezer and placed it on the counter so it would 'un-thaw'.

"I" when it should be "me" always bugs me. Tony Robinson was forever saying things like "Phil was talking to Mick and I" and it drove me round the twist.

Not as much as his "begs the question" though. No, Tony, it raises the question, or poses the question. That's not what begs the question means at all. It's almost the opposite!

My late father would talk about 'the new shopping prestinct' he would never accept that there was only one t in precinct.

Also pita vs Peter. I remember back in the 80s when pita was considered posh foreign food. People would pronounce it Peter (no r for those with a rhotic accent). Pita (rhyming with non rhotic bitter) seems to be a more modern pronunciation. Could be regional, I don't know.

Never heard that one - it would make me think of a show not starring John Thaw. 😄