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

Antimony

Lend and Borrow - ''can I lend a fiver from you''...grrrr
Teach and Learn - ''He learnt me how to do it'' grrrr again

fawd1

heretolearn wrote: »

such as using 'youse' for a plural you, which is common in parts of the south east

I am from the south east and have genuinely never ever heard this from anyone other than a northerner. I thought it was a regional thing from up there!

Teenie_D

*Louise* wrote: »

Other annoyances (pronunciation as opposed to grammatical) are:

Axed instead of Asked
'Ospickle instead of Hospital

Mine too it really annoys me it just so lazy, it makes me :mad: when I hear it!

madrhino wrote: »

I couldn't convice my 7 yr old nephew that it is aitch and not haitch when referring to the letter H. His mum (my sister in law) had told him that it was haitch and that his teacher had got it wrong when she said aitch! It was a difficult one because I could see that he would get upset to believe his mum was wrong but at the same time I didn't want him miseducated as things stick with you at that age.

An old colleague of mine used to pronounce it 'itch' used to bug me, she is now a deputy head teacher, I wonder if she was ever corrected when she was doing her teacher training?!

jackieb wrote: »

I'd say either 'i've teen a bottle' or 'i've brocht a bottle'.

Lots of dialects have stuff that doesn't make sense to people from outwith their area. We say a lot of things which would be deemed wrong, but I know the difference. I know how to say it correctly to someone who isn't local and I know how to write it down (I hope!)

:rotfl::rotfl:I live just a few miles away from 'the broch' and rarely understand what they are saying (and I've lived here all my life but parents aren't locals, not sure if that makes a difference), when I was at college one of the girls said she was getting the pinters in, she meant the painters! Oh and she was going tenting for her holidays I mean wth!!!! :eek: :rotfl:

Bad grammer and bad spelling really bugs me!

mudgekin

Aaaargh, most of those drive me nuts also.
lend and borrow, it really isn't hard with this one, I lend to you , you borrow from me, I am the one that gets left with no cash since you borrowed all mine
brought and bought, the words have such completely different meanings
could have and could of, this is just lazy imo
I saw on a forum the other day "I could care less what you said" huh? don't you mean I couldn't care less? I have seen that one on so many US based forums, again, strikes me as lazy.

The one that drives me nuts though is (insert drum roll here)
draws it is drawers !!!! and it is certainly not a chester draws. Good grief, how can a chest of drawers which is a useful piece of furniture become a Chester Draws, is that someone's name


and breathe

spaghetti_monster

Some that have made me chuckle:
Prostrate instead of prostate
Lambeth and Butler
Crugette
All from English speakers.

OH is Dutch and speaks excellent English, but occasionally says the odd funny thing. My favourite is when he called me an "unbelievable Thomas".

I think that in many languages there is only one verb used for both borrow and lend (other words in the sentence make it clear which way it's going), so I can excuse foreign friends making that mistake, but from English speakers I find it a bit weird.

Teenie_D

mudgekin wrote: »

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The one that drives me nuts though is (insert drum roll here)
draws it is drawers !!!! and it is certainly not a chester draws. Good grief, how can a chest of drawers which is a useful piece of furniture become a Chester Draws, is that someone's name


and breathe

Or I'm going to drawer a picture!! grrrr

Gigervamp

Then instead of than is being increasingly used. "It cost more then that." That bugs me, as they have completely different meanings.

liney

Pacific... I want that one in pacific. What? You want that one in an ocean?!

liney

Gigervamp wrote: »

Similar here in Wales. I'm English and my 20 year old son was born and lived in England until he was 10. He came to ask me where something was recently by saying "Where's it to?"

I had no idea what he was saying because it made no sense to me! It was like he was speaking gobbledegook.
I said "Pardon?" and he repeated it. Still not understanding I looked at my husband (he's Welsh) and he explained that it means "Where is it".

Still doesn't make sense to me! :rotfl:

Gavin and Stacey:

Nessa:Where to's she now?
Smithy: Right, either speak English or learn Welsh.

scheming_gypsy

my mum could fill this thread just from cooking programmes.

'reduce it down' being one of her favourites. I think she's waiting for somebody to reduce it up