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 say haf past instead of half past and I have to try really hard to not do it
Think that's my accent/area though as my relatives do it too

In the same way we can say 'talks at me' to imply a certain aggression then 'argues at me' could give the same feeling of how the argument was conducted, even though it isn't strictly speaking correct.

Exactly.

I was born to Irish parents who had very interesting grammar to say the least 🤣

But, I also went to a bog standard local school in the 70s and 80s and all the teachers spoke fairly well and would pull us up on our grammar if they needed to.

Fast forward to now and I work in a museum where we have schools come to visit on a daily basis. I've noticed that so many teachers and TAs are saying things like, "Oh yeah I seen that over there" or "Was you talkin when you was told not to?"

Don't get me wrong I'm not blaming the school staff (before I get lynched!) but it doesn't help, especially if the kids (which many do) come from a home where English isn't the first language.

They can't always depend on their teachers/TAs to set an example.

I was Gona say..the only time I've heard it incorrectly is in this way. Brought instead of bought!

We say "Harf passed kiss me arse, gettin on for nearly" 🤣🤣

@LoopyLooooo it wouldn't be so bad if I didn't make appointments at work!
I have swapped to saying four thirty now as I can't be relied on to actually say half past and my boss mocks me "could you be any more Bolton sometimes"

Surprised no one has posted that "language evolves" yet. Usually get that one about three posts in on these threads.
The one that has been driving me half mad lately on FB is the constant referral to abbreviated decades as 80's or 70's etc.
It's NOT a possessive. It's a plural - the apostrophe belongs in the place where the missing characters would be. Like so -
'80s
I've even seen this abomination 1980's
Arrrgh!
And if you do need to use a plural as a possessive the apostrophe goes AFTER the s. So it would be -
'80s'

I feel better now 😂

I saw this on a post recently veiled fret…. Made me anxious 😬

I’ll raise you “of” used instead of the auxiliary verb “have”: I could of told her.

Also using “done” when the preterite “did” should be used. It’s really common on this site: I told her I would do it but then she done it herself.

You're both not unboring enough that you found anything better to click on, though!

I suppose, technically, it's not wrong to say "I brought it from New Look" - if you take it as a given that, being a shop, anything brought from them would first have been purchased as a matter of course.

But NEVER 'brought it AT New Look'!

It is likely a Canadianism...😉

Have you had your blood pressure checked recently ?

I stand corrected: American and British English...
(I guess we've adopted it?)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unthaw

Eh? Presant?!

One peter bread please 😄

When people ask for an 'expresso' i feel like screaming 'it's a bloody espresso you twit'

Really annoys me more than it should

@GentleButter pleural OP? As in relating to the serous membranes lining the thorax and enveloping the lungs?

I think it's difficult to tell with most people's accent if they say it, but if it's written it does make people look kind of dumb.
The ones that annoy me are 'crutch' for 'crotch' and this one is a bit obscure, but people who try and be posh when talking about a restaurant. They say 'the food was left on the passe' rather than pass. Like the food was left being incredibly old fashioned in french?! Hyacinth Bucket would choke on her chorizo!

Oh yes! 🤦‍♀️

That makes it WRANG!!

That's such a good song I would forgive Diamond, if he needed it, which he didn't. It's poetic licence.

This thread has had some good ones, not least the vehemence of your 'hate' and I gave myself a pain from laughing at Peter bread and brung. The bought / brought pronunciation seems to be a London peculiarity. It's how some Londoners were brung up speaking, which they keep as their natural speech, I suppose.

I was wondering if maybe they are saying the r but in such a way that it's b'ought with the r elided or suppressed so the listener thinks the speaker is saying bought, past tense of buy, when in fact they are not. But then confusion arises with I went to the shop and brought a new lawn mower, meaning bought, the past tense of buy. The suppressed r has mysteriously migrated to a different context and is now the errant r.

I agree it's annoying, but your reaction is totally OTT, so YABU in my opinion.

And you think your husband is insufferable????

The one that annoys me the most but usually americans who say it is
'I could care less' when it should be I couldn't care less' does my freaking head in.

I just remembered how my son used to say '2 peas in a pond' haha instead of 2 peas in a pod' and he used to call Robbie Williams 'Wobbly Williams' makes me laugh to think of it now as he was so small then.