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.

Noooo!! I HATE it when people say "texted". It sounds wrong, it's just text.

Sat and sitting. “I was sat next to her”. 🤮

Quite often in the West Midlands (particularly black country), borrow and lend are used interchangeably.

Can you borrow me a fiver? Etc.

But that perpetuates the incorrect. Better that mistakes be pointed out while on an anonymous forum than in a meeting at work

No it isn't
You send a text
You have therefore texted

Lavatory only!

Omg another one I’m seeing alllll the time on instagram is peak instead of peek. SNEAK PEEK. They’re literally different words so why is it hard?

Tow the line...
where to?

Omg another one I’m seeing alllll the time on instagram is peak instead of peek. SNEAK PEEK. They’re literally different words so why is it hard?

It's hard because they sound exactly the same. Some people are good at remembering this kind of thing, some people are not. We all have things we aren't so good at. I'm amazing at spelling, but I am rubbish with numbers and have zero sense of direction or ability to remember the way to anywhere.

Wait staff/list/line
Its waiting staff, a waiting list, etc

Magdalen College
Mainwaring

That is a lot of falling, maybe when one is falling a lot one should see a dr.

On a related note, where is the line between I fell and I had a fall?

With one phrase you are still young and got up and carried on, with the other you are bedridden for weeks, maybe even in hospital.

Asking for a friend because just last week I had a fall and cracked a rib, where even a year ago I would have said I fell.

Fuck, I feel super old. And in pain.

Apologies if this has been mentioned. Not got enough time to read beyond third page of the thread just now, but had to contribute!

It both irritates and amuses me when I hear, for example, "We're going Aldis" or "He's gone Spain" 😄

And I knew someone who would explain their sickness absence with "I had a viral" 😄

I only ever see on here, thankfully rarely: ‘Husband and I’s plan is to …’ I think this has replaced the misuse of ‘myself’. I find it even worse.

That one really annoys me, too. Also the other way round - as in "His done so well on he's mocks". They wouldn't do it with she/her, so WTF?

All of these things make me cringe. In particular I hate the use of the incorrect to/too/two and loose/lose. Also the correct use of less/fewer was drummed into me as a child (less where it is part of a bigger entity, fewer where there are individual items. Less apple pie, fewer apples)

My DH is from, originally, a very working class area of Kent and I know some of the things he says are regional - such as the use of 'indoors' rather than at home. So instead of saying he wants to go home, he will say he wants to go indoors, or we could be at a friends house and he will say he has left his specs indoors and then be confused when I am wondering why he doesn't just get them.
He does also have a problem with the word prostate though and tends to say prostrate. I'm guessing that is because prostate is not a word that is used much outside a medical conversation whereas prostate can be (although it probably isnt) used in many more contexts.

Make noise instead of make a noise.

My blood boils when people use itch and scratch the wrong way
”I itched my back”
Yuck, yuck, yuck

Of course it isn't. "Text" as a verb is a new term, and it must follow standard rules which require adding "ed" in the past tense. Would you say "I have test the water" rather than "tested"?

One I saw on here recently which must have been misheard is ‘It swings on roundabouts’ instead of ‘It’s swings and roundabouts’ when comparing things.

That's regional dialect. Personally like the difference in regional use of words. It makes films, programmes etc more interesting, the rich tapestry of life and all that.

Breath and breathe

Just relax and breath hun !

People seem to struggle an awful lot with bear and bare. I'm constantly seeing something like "Grin and bare it" which conjures up some fairly bizarre pictures.

Text was a new verb. If people prefer to not follow old rules for new words, then both becomes acceptable. If the same word is being used by different nationalities, then it becomes even more valid.

Yep. ‘Adverse’ being used instead of ‘averse’ is something that really irritates me. Top of the list for me will always be ‘could of’ etc. If someone writes that, I stop engaging with them. I have had to type this three times as my phone keeps correcting to ‘could have’. Well done to my phone.