Brought and bought what’s going on?

[eddie]

Never gets annoying Dad.......

Just be content to think, as you always remind me, that you'll be picking my care home

 

[Simon Select]

Just be content to think, as you always remind me, that you'll be picking my care home

I don't think a care home could deal with you. It will probably be a flight to Switzerland! xx

 

[Janine]

Plural is

Ignoramuses

(Not a dig or correction, just answering a question)

That doesn’t work for rhinoceros though .....

 

[M-J]

That doesn’t work for rhinoceros though .....

Depends on the context

 

[Garfields]

Nohting rong with me spellings
Its my typing thats cr@p

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[Mrsambulancekidd]

I don't think the OP was meaning spelling in the written form, but the spoken word.
Even the people who really should know better, people like news reporters & presenters do it all the time, so it's no wonder that other people start doing it.
The difference between words like ACCEPT & EXCEPT are a common one to hear.

 

[buttons]

There are some living north of here who never sound the R in bath. We all need to speak proper English before we start thinking about the spelling.

 

[Potty]

Is it any wonder that Brits are so bad at learning other languages when they can’t speak English properly?

If I hear another TV presenter say “We are sat here” I shall ask the TV company who sat them there!

 

[Potty]

There are some living north of here who never sound the R in bath. We all need to speak proper English before we start to address the spelling.

As a Londoner who lived in Lancashire for 20 years, I was always told there is no “R” in bath and only one in drawing.

 

[CazPaul]

Someone brought a fool onto the forum, or was the fool bought and he has paid to come on here?

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[Baileysbus]

No

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

There are some living north of here who never sound the R in bath. We all need to speak proper English before we start thinking about the spelling.

Regional dialect is a different kettle of fish and the would be a poorer place without it.

 

[596]

Sum peeple just karnt spoke write ?

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

Iam always Fiddlesticksking op ma worms...….

 

[HandyAndy]

The one that I see people getting mixed up is than and then. I see that far too much. I mean how does that even happen! ??‍??

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[596]

Just HOW can you mix up Brought and Bought the are too TOTALLY DIFFERENT meanings

I brought a car and paid cash

Lady to friend: My husband brought me lunch, friend: thought you were in a restaurant with him, Lady: yes but he brought it, friend: how did he bring it if he was with you, Lady: no he brought it........ Oh Please!

 

[Barclaybasher]

I

I’m no spelling police as I said, just interested why it’s happening and from replies I’m not the only one. Maybe if we all told people who say daft stuff they sound like d..ks it may actually make a difference, too many people don’t pull them up and it spreads like a thick disease. There is a big differences in getting the odd word spelt wrong to actually talking utter bo!!ox! ?

It's not the spelling that is important - it's the content.....

 

[596]

I


It's not the spelling that is important - it's the content.....

Nobody is talking about speeeling we can awl may misteaks, its the spowken wurd. HOW can bought and brought be confused?

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

it's the content.....

Or even the context.....

 

[pappajohn]

Correcting spelling and grammar on the forum is a hanging offense and could result in a ban.
Some spell as they speak...as long as you understand does it matter.

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[CazPaul]

Correcting spelling and grammar on the forum is a hanging offense and could result in a ban.
Some spell as they speak...as long as you understand does it matter.

Yes he hasn't been around long enough to discover that.

Some of the Yorkshire stuff we were brought up with, ''Itintintin'' sumdis tuk it artertin.

 

[596]

Correcting spelling and grammar on the forum is a hanging offense and could result in a ban.
Some spell as they speak...as long as you understand does it matter.

Its general question NOT to do with the forum or a particular person, surely debate can take place

Correcting spelling and grammar on the forum is a hanging offense and could result in a ban.
Some spell as they speak...as long as you understand does it matter.

Why use a knife and fork in a restaurant if you can use your hands, does it matter?

 

[pappajohn]

Its general question NOT to do with the forum or a particular person, surely debate can take place

What use a knife and fork in a restaurant if you can use your hands, does it matter?

It was just a reminder!

 

[Barclaybasher]

Nobody is talking about speeeling we can awl may misteaks, its the spowken wurd. HOW can bought and brought be confused?

Your post I quoted was about spelling.

But back to the OP - have you bought your new van and brought it home yet?

 

[596]

It was just a reminder!

Surely we are meant to progress in life, we can all help each other, but to watch people slip further down in whatever to me is not right, I always help where I can and appreciate others helping me. As for the forum I really don't care what they write, I seem to understand things as they are and have never criticised anyones spelling, just a reminder

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[596]

Your post I quoted was about spelling.

But back to the OP - have you bought your new van and brought it home yet?

No

 

[Vipar]

My pet hates are

"will you borrow it to me"
"Kinda like"
"Y know"

 

[pappajohn]

I've never come across brought instead of bought but my pet hate is people writing been as and seen as rather than being as and seeing as.
Seeing as its a Friday the shop closes early... Or.... Seen as its etc
It's OK in a spoken dialect but not a written sentence.
And I have yet to hear a π-key who can say ASK........ I AKS you!

 

[Jaws]

My pet hates are not spelling related, or even usage really

People who start everything they say with 'So,'
broadcasters who 'umm and ahh'
People who intersperse every other sentence with 'you know'
And all the knobs who, after something awful has happened, say 'lessons will be learned' when you know full well they will not be.

 

[Richard n Ann]

May I mention Breg-zit?

Oops I just did

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