Do you say brought or bought when talking about something you have bought

gollygosh

Just heard "he seeked me out" on Hollyoaks no he didn't he sought you out! Is seeked even a word?

pinkshoes

Not knowing the difference between bought/brought, should've = should HAVE (not should of), their/there/they're etc... is merely poor English and a sign of a lack of intelligence and/or a poor education.

What annoys me is when you try and help someone and correct their English, they then start ranting and raving about you being rude!! My English isn't perfect, but I have absolutely no objection to being corrected when wrong - how else am I supposed to learn?!?

Lotus-eater

gollygosh wrote: »

Is seeked even a word?

I think it means you wear a big hat and carry a sword.

Kay_Peel

I have a little cringe about Americanisms - 'Go figure', 'Do the Math' and so forth.

I have a bigger cringe at adults who speak like toddlers - 'hospikal' instead of hospital and 'likkle' instead of little. Aaaagh!

Lotus-eater

Kay_Peel wrote: »

I have a bigger cringe at adults who speak like toddlers - 'hospikal' instead of hospital and 'likkle' instead of little. Aaaagh!

Blame Steve Wright for that!

Actually I think it's funny

onlyroz

Buzz vs Bass, sorry for me it's a Buzz that you catch.

I once confused some of my southern friends when I told them I was going to bake some buns for a party - they were expecting bread rolls and were very confused when I made small sweet cakes.

I'm from the part of the world that will tell you:

Ner smirkin err kerr (translate - would you please refrain from smoking in my presence)
Goin' on rerd (translate - I am going shopping)
Gimme a kirk-a-curler (translate - I would like a popular fizzy cola flavoured beverage)
Yer fer-eva merning (translate - you do complain a lot)
I gorrit fer nawt (translate - I did not have to pay for it)

Edit: Just been reading some amusing stuff about the "glottal stop". Compare the following, and do tell us which one is you:

Be'y bough' a bi' of bu'er.
Bu' the bi' of bu'er Be'y bough' was bi'er,
So Be'y bough' anuvver bi' of bu'er.

Betty bought a bit of butter.
But the bit of butter Betty bought was bitter,
So Betty bought another bit of butter.

shelley_crow

claire16c wrote: »

The only people Ive known to say Mom are Americans, because obviously thats what they say. And 1 person I know from Birmingham! Ive never understood why she uses the American word. Where are you from - its not Birmingham too is it?:rotfl:



Everyone I know says Mum. The only people I know who say Mam are Northerners.

Luckily not!

Gloomendoom

Kay_Peel wrote: »

I have a bigger cringe at adults who speak like toddlers - 'hospikal' instead of hospital and 'likkle' instead of little. Aaaagh!

'Train station' sounds similarly infantile to me.

lizzielondon wrote: »

not as bad as some on here but it drives me nuts when people say 'i should of done that', 'i would of picked you up'

HAVE not OF!!!!!!

've is not of!!!

No, but sometimes it should be with and not of.

As when somebody is fed up've something or bored've something.

paddy's_mum

I hate the hybrid word 'proply' used by so many to mean probably or properly and you, the listener, have to interpret the sentence and it's context to decide which word the speaker actually means. How contemptuous towards the listener is that, for heaven's sake!

A local charity shop had a handwritten sign displayed on an item of furniture 'footstall £15'. I take it the item is half brother to market stall, cattle stall and install?

A newsreader recently reported that a man had been rushed to hospital after having been almost stabbed to death by a thug. I couldn't understand why he was taken as the knife didn't connect and he was uninjured ... oh, you mean he was stabbed almost to death

A great many adverts and posters misuse 'only' as I saw in a display outside Morrisons a while ago. 'We only sell British beef'. So you don't sell teabags and washing powder and bread and rubber gloves ...

And finally, the glottal stop is alive and well and living on East Enders!

sleepless_saver

Anyone else notice people often say "plug" when they mean "socket"?

As in "where's the plug?" when they're holding it!