How is it even possible?

Buchanan0204

Buchanan0204

Buchanan0204

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Now I don't profess to be an English grammar expert, nor do I care when people make mistakes with there (just kidding, "Their") grammar.

However......

How is it humanly possible to replace the word "bought" with "brought." They sound nothing alike, nor do they share any relation in terms. Do they actually say this word when speaking? "I brought a new laptop today." Surely not!!

It's littered all over these forums and many other places.

It’s the same with "quite" and "quiet." However that's excusable, it's kind of similar and probably just a spelling mistakes. Adding a blatant "R" into a word is not an error on the keyboard.
 
I think it might stem from the american use of "bring" rather than "take", a la Goodfellas where the mobster turns up with a new car and a fur coat for the missus and De Niro tells the mobster to "bring it back".
 
The brought and bought thing seems to be getting more common lately. Recently I've been constantly correcting two girls I work with about it because it's driving me to distraction.

Bought - To Buy
Brought - To Bring
 
If it wasn't for you grammar freaks what would I ever do, English is not my first language so I appreciate when others are corrected so that I can learn :)

Big thanks to the guy who has "definitely" with tick and "definetely" (or something similar) with a cross. Ever since I noticed his signature I never misspelled "definitely" again. :D
 
My women seen a lot of the stuff there I would have brought her more then she could have knicked though, she had nothing to loose anyways.

Edit

I should have added a couple of 'basically's and a few 'literally's in their for added OcUK goodness. But i forgot to.
 
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One of my friends recently said, "I can borrow it you if you want", meaning he would lend it to me. I nearly slapped him.

Edit: lol! just read some of posts and seems it's already been mentioned :D
 
Why do people say defiantly, when they mean definitely? This has to be the worst one going.

The "your/you're" ones are annoying as well, the majority of people don't seem to be aware of the existence of "you're" at all.

Oh, and all those people that have recently been putting spaces between punctuation, like before question marks, exclamation marks, commas and fullstops.

STOP IT!

:p
 
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