I know this is petty but... it's BOUGHT not BROUGHT!

edinburgher

Big thanks to the OP - glad you bought this to our attention

Matt1977

zara*elise wrote: »

...or decide to make words up, like 'brang'.

He brang it to our attention.

Oh dear - I used to say that.

tyllwyd

rob_wiltshire wrote: »

I just remembered another one that annoys me - when people talk about men getting 'prostrate cancer'. I have heard some (supposedly) well educated people get that one wrong :mad:

I still can't convince myself that it isn't St Pancreas railway station.

zara*elise

Matt1977 wrote: »

Oh dear - I used to say that.

It's ok, we'll forgive you

PHYTHIAN

My wife ( GF at the time) said ' Can you bring us to the shops ?' Obviously I said 'No , I can't'.
After about 20 mins of her pouting and moaning I had to explain that if she had asked me ' Can you take me shopping?' or even ' Can you take me to the shops?' I might have been able to, but I can not 'bring' anyone anywhere; I also did not know whom the 'us' comprised of.
12 years later and she still asks me to 'bring' her to places but corrects herself when I say 'no'!!!

.....but she stills asks for 'two cup of teaS' at cafes.

adonis10

Two main peeves for me:

'Your' instead of 'You're'

'Of' instead of 'have'

Horizon81

Nice to see this thread still going strong.

Brought instead of bought seems to be said by at least 20% of people on here! I agree with the earlier poster who said it's a local thing. Nobody I know (oop North) says it however someone I knew from Nottingham used to say it in everyday speech and were convinced they were correct any everyone else was wrong. Madness.

spirit

Someone who sits opposite me here keeps saying brought instead of bought.

She also always says them people, them phones, them houses - you get the idea.

She sometimes asks me if I can pass her one of 'them' things and looks at me blankly when I say no, but she can have one of those instead.

i blame the soaps since they seem to make the same errors.

moneybunny123

Another one that really annoys me, again it's local to Stoke-on-Trent, is people that say "his self" instead of "himself". For example, "He's only got his self to blame". Grrrr....it makes me mad. Another common one that Stokies say is "I aren't..." instead of "I'm not...."

VJ_

J_i_m wrote: »

I'm actually a Dyslexic, yet I honesty don't think I do too badly against the whole scheme of things. English definitely isn't my strong suit yet compared to most other people apparently without Dyslexia you wouldn't have noticed since my English isn't noticeably worse than anyone else.

However having a diagnosed difficulty with words etc, It does wind me up when people or "Grammar Nazis" as some like to be know as :P, seem to take it upon themselves to correct other people. I'm not complaining or anything but it is annoying when you've taken your time to be correct as you can be, or at least to your ability and still you have someone tutting at you, speaking over you to correct you or crossing out things in something you've written. There is no need for it really :P

QFT
Really, when posting on teh interwebs, typo's, misspellings and rushed grammar are a fact of life. It dosn't bother me as it in't formal or professional writing - it's just a relaxed, informal messageboard.

Chillax people!

Matt1977 wrote: »

Oh dear - I used to say that.

Don't worry, the reason brang ain't a 'proper' word is more or less the same reason ain't isn't. i.e. Because people in ivory towers think they can controll the English language as if it was French.
The fact of the matter is, that words such as ain't and brang have long and perfectly sound etymologies; ain't was first used in the 1700s and was widespread by 1857 for Dickens to use it Little Dorrit.

Given that the OED now includes words such as 'lol' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12893416_), I think we can safely say that usage of 'non-standard' words such as brung and brang are fine on a web forum.