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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This has been my bugbear for as long as I can remember, and seems to transcend the population! e.g. “I was bought up in Kent and lived my teen years in Dorset” or “The Joneses’ kindly bought some wine with them on the picnic”. It happens so often from many different quarters (including Royalty, news readers and other people who really should know better!) that my ears are attuned to each and every time somebody misuses the word “brought” (and, possibly, mispronounces it) it grates inside. More often than not I feel compelled to retort with something like “Was it expensive?” or some such facetious question. Would this qualify as an eggcorn? I wonder.
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Are you sure you’ve got that the right way round? Lots of people use “brought” instead of “bought” – it’s established dialect in areas like the West Midlands – but I don’t remember hearing it the other way. Can you provide some examples from the interweb?
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