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.

even ‘ baby’ is preferable to the nauseating ‘bubba’ (makes me want to throw up)

my teeth grinder is ‘discrete’ used as an alternative form of ‘discreet,’ when it is a homophone with a different meaning

this is better than Pedants Corner - they are all pedants over there

Oh the irony. Top MN 😀

I was going to type this - where is borrow/lend a regional thing? Genuinely interested!

free rein is correct

😄

I am in complete agreement, OP. I usually hear brought instead of bought though, rather than the other way round. Also, I've noticed it more when reading online reviews. "I brought this a month ago and really like it..." I long with every fibre of my being, to reply with, "do you mean BOUGHT?" AAAAAGGHHHH.

As soon as I'm reading a post with loose instead of lose, I immediately stop and hide/delete it. It's an instant, visceral reaction.

Also I'm chill. You mean CHILLED.

No doubt I am way too late, but its "plural" not "pleural". Sorry OP.

Presant?

I’m glad someone else has noticed this, I thought it was hilarious 😆

Lose and loose for me

I get lose sounds phonetically as loose, but seems extremely common nowadays.

I think this depends on age. A bit like whether you write gaol or jail.

It was taught in schools to use an apostrophe as GCSE is an initialisation of general certificate of education so you are initialising it and also contracting it. So I was taught to use an apostrophe.

Actually I wasn't because they had not been thought of when I was at school. I was taught to do it with O'Levels as a contraction of Ordinary Levels.

I was also taught to indent paragraphs and to put a full stop between initialisations so G.C.S.E's.

Now it is common to leave a line or two between paragraphs without indentation.

I was also taught not to use excessive punctuation s no double question marks.

My daughter has started the west of Scotland use of “how” instead of “why” 🤬

Urgh, the ones that irk me the most are:-

“I done it”
”We won them” (as in beating someone, not winning trophies or goldfish)
”will you borrow me a…”

You'll get flamed with the following phrases;

Spelling ang grammar are no longer important

Language evolves (to the point of being non-sensical, apparently)

English may not be their 1st language (even though many foreigners speak better English than natives)

Some developmental trait such as autism, adhd is in play

It's like screaming in space, except the people who do hear you scream are those who want to argue

Dyslexia maybe?

It does grate on me a bit too OP but don't judge people. They are very similar looking/ sounding words.

Is your Mum American?

How can you tell if their saying 'a lot' or 'alot'. I would only notice when written, not when someone is saying it!

The one that gave me the rage this week was someone saying they were "mortified" when they actually meant "horrified"... and that person was DH Luckily he realised what he had done and corrected himself, otherwise I'd be questioning everything about us.

I read on here recently a post from someone who was going to lend some money from the bank I had to close the app and walk away!

I saw that one too. 🤦‍♂️

A few people have picked up on me typing 'pleural'. I noticed this too about half an hour after I posted and I actually laughed at the irony! I noticed too late to use the edit function on here. My phone changed plural to pleural without me noticing as I was texting speedily and posted without proof reading. My phone saves words I've recently used, and earlier in the day I had texted the word pleural to a colleague as I am a medical practitioner. So when I typed plural, it automatically changed to pleural! Even now in this post, I'm having to go back and edit it because my phone is switching it to pleural.
I suppose this could happen when people use their phones to type certain words in their messages. Phones do change words as part of autocorrect. Although my post was about people who say bought instead of brought, not about their spelling of it.
I'd like to address the poster who picked me up on saying my husband argues 'at' me, instead of 'with' me, about him saying bought instead of brought. I very deliberately used the word 'at'. To say 'my husband argues with me' would imply that we both argue with each other, but this is not what happens. I simply correct him in a calm and lighthearted way and in response my husband argues at me, meaning he starts arguing about it but I do not argue back at him. I remain calm and I don't engage in arguing about this. So he very much argues at me.

The almost ubiquitous replacement of ‘purposely’ with ‘purposefully’. They are not interchangeable; they don’t both mean ‘on purpose’, which is usually the context.

Also ‘hubby’ - fucking awful, but I don’t really know why it winds me up so much 😂