I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't, but if I don't whinge about this, I will BURST!!!!

[TisNotChristmasYetSaysSquonk]

If you go to the shops and buy something, you have bought it.

You have only brought something if you intended to bring something with you, and subsequently did so.

So: "I went to the shops and brought some sausages for tea" is wrong. You BOUGHT the sausages. "I went to the shops and brought my children home with me" is correct. (assuming, of course, that you bumped into your kids at the shop).

Thank you.

Apologies to anyone using said incorrect word tonight.

Is 'lay' not the past tense of 'lie'?
For example, 'I lay down on my bed this morning.'
It can't be 'I lied down'.
Perhaps you are supposed to say 'I was lying down'...?

'Would of', 'could of', 'should of' - one (or three?) of my real pet hates. Have, have, have!!!
Also people who say 'generally' when they mean 'genuinely' - 'He was generally happy when he won the prize.' - NO!

I agree with OP.

I would also like to point out it is sandals not sandles.

i am loosing the will to live

I absolutely agree. And yet I cannot get this right when speaking.

I want to die.

You could say "loose the dogs!" without a let. You know if you had a pack of dogs and a manservant and a pitchforky rabble were storming your land.

My absolute worst is independant - as in "my child is at independant school."

I can't afford it but at least I can bloody spell it.

mp has a pet sausage
she may or may not take it shopping
I know not the retail habits of encased ground meat.

As you were.

Present tense- bring. Past tense-brought.

Present tense- buy. Past tense- bought

T'is not difficult (unless v. stupid)

My absolute favourite from the kids (not mine I hasten to add ) is "I brung it" (Year 6 age 11 too-God give me strength!)

oh i love 'brung'. so logical:

sing - sang - sung
ring - rang - rung
bring - brang - brung

as for 'would of': doesn't 'of' just (ok, mistakenly) reflect the pronunciation of 'have' in 'would/could/should have', which for most of us is something like 'uv'...?