Brought and Bought - Why?

[Edin Dundee]

Why the confusion with these words?
I lived and worked in several places in England and can't remember people interchanging these words, or did I live in the 'proper' places?
People should learn how to get their tongue round their Rs, be less mistakes then.

[trackerjack]

Well another one of my favourite hates too

When or where did this start to happen?

The first time I heard it was about about ten years ago when a relative said they "brought it in Chichester"
I laughed thinking they were joking.......err no.
Since then it has spread like a disease across the land and people have brought things and brought them home with them.
Ebay is awash with adverts stating "I brought this a few months ago".
It probably stems from football managers talking on the box as they say things like "them ones" instead of "those ones".
If its any help we would all struggle to understand our language as spoken 200 hundred years ago.
I also admit that my grammar is not so good either and sometimes I look at what I have written and remember the classic Morcambe and Wise line of "this is the play that I have wrote" modern folk would not see the joke as its more football manager speak.

[matienzo]

There are quite a few of these inconsistencies designed to make your blood boil....stands back awaiting the flood of examples........................

[dursley92]

Must say I hadn't really noticed the bought-brought one but will be waiting for it now.
There are loads of others that annoy me, for example the old there-their problem is always with us.

A slightly different version, my Gran who was an excellent cook would sometimes say she had some "boughten" cake, which was supposed to be better in some way compared to her own home made ones. It wasn't better but in those days home made cake was seen as inferior. How times have changed.

[Jon Tilson]

You ought to use bought when you have brought nought and use brought when you have bought nought.

Sorry...

Being married to a latin teaching linguistiic pedant I get my grammar spanked on a daily basis....

Jonners

[soe8m]

Brengen of gekocht! No issues here.

Jeroen

[Pippin]

There are quite a few of these inconsistencies designed to make your blood boil....stands back awaiting the flood of examples........................

How about the misuse of "of" instead of "have". E.g. "I should of done that earlier" instead of "I should have done that earlier". The only excuse I can think of for this is that the abbreviation "should've" sounds a bit like "should of", although it's actually an abbreviation of "should have".

Jer

[Howard81]

There are quite a few of these inconsistencies designed to make your blood boil....stands back awaiting the flood of examples........................

How about the misuse of "of" instead of "have". E.g. "I should of done that earlier" instead of "I should have done that earlier". The only excuse I can think of for this is that the abbreviation "should've" sounds a bit like "should of", although it's actually an abbreviation of "should have".

Jer

Or even worse, "ov"

[xvivalve]

Somethink, anythink...no think!!!

[cliftyhanger]

ect ect

Now that I really hate.......

[geeksteve]

Aks instead of ask annoys me. It's just laziness. Then we have:

Your/you're.

To/two/too.

Implied/inferred.

All have simple rules, why does nobody follow them?

Steve

[xvivalve]

There, they're, their!

[Jon Tilson]

disinterested when people mean not interested.

disinterested = unbiased

Have heard BBC journos get that wrong.

Jonners

[Mad Mart]

Schedule pronounced with a hard 'c' instead of a soft 'c'.

[dave comer]

A good example is Mad Mart's signature.