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

Mind_the_Gap

zara*elise wrote: »

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

He brang it to our attention.

But all words were made up by someone, at some point.

'Brang' is simply a non-standard/dialect preterite form of the verb to bring. You also hear 'I've brung' in the north of England. The vowel shifts echo the Old Germanic forms from which Anglo-Saxon was derived and can be heard even now in irregular verbs such as 'sink/sank/sunk'/ sing/sang/sung'.

I quite like 'I brang', although it's probably not appropriate in a formal context!

rodent

Most annoying is; advice & advise which regularly get misused.

Mind_the_Gap

PHYTHIAN wrote: »

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.

She sounds very long-suffering.

rodent

rob_wiltshire wrote: »

If, like me, you use a spell checker you will be fine....

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

That is brilliant :T

rodent

Other very annoying problems:

I havent got NO ....money, clothes, shoes etc................Great so you actually have plenty then.

I seen xxx ..............arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggg....NO you SAW xxx

jamie11

Mind_the_Gap wrote: »

But all words were made up by someone, at some point.

'Brang' is simply a non-standard/dialect preterite form of the verb to bring. You also hear 'I've brung' in the north of England. The vowel shifts echo the Old Germanic forms from which Anglo-Saxon was derived and can be heard even now in irregular verbs such as 'sink/sank/sunk'/ sing/sang/sung'.

I quite like 'I brang', although it's probably not appropriate in a formal context!

Oh my! This looks as if it's going to be your biggest class ever. :rotfl:

MissShal

"I was woundering when"...

*Grinds teeth*

judderman62

mutter wrote: »

I got a real bargain off ebay a while back on something that was listed as a 'Chester Draw'.

I'm thrilled to find there's a bunch of pedants and grammar police here - makes me feel quite at home!
I have to sit on my hands to prevent me from correcting some of the howlers - even though I suspect I've made my fair share of them.

prevent myself

daedalus_2

My pet hate is estate agents who advertise houses for sale with accommodation comprising of two bedrooms etc. It's comprised of or comprising.

KiKi

daedalus wrote: »

My pet hate is estate agents who advertise houses for sale with accommodation comprising of two bedrooms etc. It's comprised of or comprising.

Well, actually, 'comprised of' is also incorrect. As 'comprise' means 'includes' (and is often used to mean 'made up of', although that's not strictly correct), no 'of' is ever required.

You would simply say 'comprises'. 'Of' is only needed when using a term such as 'consisted', where the meaning requires a preposition.

'The house comprises two bedrooms.' (Or 'the house comprised two bedrooms' if you want it in the past tense.)

'The house consists of two bedrooms.' (Or 'consisted of'.)