Brought vs bought
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Probably agree. It's never used up here but when I lived in London we got it a lot. Along with the other examples mentioned.
I did notice a racial trend to it as well. It was more black kids that used it and the likes of akset, innit as well as pronouncing th as f or v - enuff, bruva etc. It tended to be black Caribbean rather than African though.
Never noticed it amongst far eastern friends or people I met. Rare amongst white British. None existent amongst Europeans.
Oh and no being pronounced as nowah.
One interesting one up here though is Pakistani and Bangladeshi's often end sentences with 'yeah'.
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Are you sure it wasn't a form of work place bullying where by if you didn't do your job properly you were going to be hospitalised?
I really hope not, as even though he isn't my direct boss he still does a lot of work for us after leaving as he is the only one that knows how the poxy infrastructure works.
He's a very intelligent guy (massively Cisco certified etc etc) but unfortunately he lets himself down with these silly grammatical mistakes.
The number of emails he starts with 'I hope your well' are numerous and every time I read one of these I feel the need to put my head in the oven.
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All the bad spelling brought up in this thread is bloody irritating. What I also find irritating, Diddums, is people who have mod edited signatures and haven't bothered to fix the damn things!
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What bugs me is especially vs specially. Specially just sounds like simpleton language!
As in a mispronunciation of turned?
Exactly. They spell it the same way too. They actually think it is a word.
I find it funny how there is 6 pages of a topic on "bought" and "brought", on a forum where 99% of the members don't know the difference between "there" and "they're".
OCUK really is the worst I have seen for it.
Pull that statistic out of your backside did you?
Confirmation bias, much?
Using the plural 'women' when they should use the singular really winds me up.
e.g. "I'm looking for a nice, down to earth women"
or
e.g. "I'm a normal women really"
Simply reading it out loud would be enough to tell you that they are both wrong
e.g. "I'm looking for a nice, down to earth women"
or
e.g. "I'm a normal women really"
Simply reading it out loud would be enough to tell you that they are both wrong
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People who say draw instead of drawer really get on my nerves.
IT'S A DRAWER!!!
IT'S A DRAWER!!!
How do you pronounce it?
Both are accepted but I've only heard the second UK version in conversation, draw-er just sounds odd.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/drawer_1
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I pronounce it draw-er.
But I don't just mean spoken. People actually write "draw" when they mean "drawer".
But I don't just mean spoken. People actually write "draw" when they mean "drawer".
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"would have" instead of "would have" when written is another one that's like finger nails down a blackbard to me.
I find it funny how there is 6 pages of a topic on "bought" and "brought", on a forum where 99% of the members don't know the difference between "there" and "they're".
OCUK really is the worst I have seen for it.
Y'ay im in teh 1 pursent.
I wish we'd spend more time getting punctuation correct, and using caps in all the right places.
I'd forgive the odd mix-up with 'their' and 'they're', if we could all agree to befriend a comma or two.
There will always be a percentage who didn't pay attention in school or are just not very bright.
Would be interesting to see if there is any correlation in the age of the more common offenders (I'm 34) - at the time I was supposed to be being taught the basic fundamentals of English was the previous time the Conservatives were in power and as they like to do having a good old meddle with the school system - I dunno how widespread it is but around here a good number of people around my age lack a proper English education (they kept changing around the years certain things were taught in the curriculum so 1-2 years fell through the cracks) - I was never even taught about things like nouns, adverbs, etc. at school due to it (wasn't just me not paying attention or my school being a particularly bad one),
Would be interesting to see if there is any correlation in the age of the more common offenders (I'm 34) - at the time I was supposed to be being taught the basic fundamentals of English was the previous time the Conservatives were in power and as they like to do having a good old meddle with the school system - I dunno how widespread it is but around here a good number of people around my age lack a proper English education (they kept changing around the years certain things were taught in the curriculum so 1-2 years fell through the cracks) - I was never even taught about things like nouns, adverbs, etc. at school due to it (wasn't just me not paying attention or my school being a particularly bad one),
You did o so well until the very end(full stop)