Brought?

[TheLagDidIt]

why do people tend to type brought when they mean bought? Or is it just a different dialect? I ask this because it annoys me when i see it repeatedly w/o knowing why so many people write it.

[dr lyo]

Brought - The past tense of bring

Either its a typo/autocorrect in my opinion as I don't know anyone who uses brought as opposed to bought. I am England so I can only comment on dialect from here.

 

[TheLagDidIt]

2 minutes ago, dr lyo said:

Brought - The past tense of bring

Either its a typo/autocorrect in my opinion as I don't know anyone who uses brought as opposed to bought. I am England so I can only comment on dialect from here.

 

no, they are using it as past tense of buy.

[DisguisedDemise]

1 minute ago, TheLagDidIt said:

no, they are using it as past tense of buy.

When what they mean is Bought

[TheLagDidIt]

Just now, DisguisedDemise said:

When what they mean is Bought

it makes no sense for this typo to occur, especially on a qwerty keyboard

[dr lyo]

2 minutes ago, TheLagDidIt said:

no, they are using it as past tense of buy.

I know, but it is not the past tense of buy. The past tense is bought. Hence my opinion on maybe why its used. If you Google it there are a number of posts about the confusion between the two words so it could be that.

[Ezzy-525]

I've seen this a lot on here. Probably just one of those things non-native English speakers do. The English language can be a bitch lol

[DisguisedDemise]

Just now, Ezzy-525 said:

I've seen this a lot on here. Probably just one of those things non-native English speakers do. The English language can be a bitch lol

Agreed

[Teddy07]

Well if English is your second language than those things can happen...

[PlayStation 2]

English can make little to no sense coming from a native speaker of it, so you can't necessarily blame someone who doesn't natively speak it to type brought instead of bought.

[TheLagDidIt]

1 minute ago, Teddy07 said:

Well if English is your second language than those things can happen...

i agree, but some of them are in us or canada, where english is common

[yathis]

12 hours ago, TheLagDidIt said:

why do people tend to type brought when they mean bought? Or is it just a different dialect? I ask this because it annoys me when i see it repeatedly w/o knowing why so many people write it.

English is failing hard in our society. People spelling Massage when its Message. Its because texting and online garbage. Even news articles have a ton of typo's in them now. Metro is bad, Yahoo news is bad, lots are bad.

 

You can tell when someone is trying to spell it how its pronounced, thats obvious. Other times its because they are new to English, could be an old guy who hasnt completed Jr High or High School. Could be just plain ole stupidity.

[Syntaxvgm]

I really think it's a phone keyboard thing. Think of it this way- it's not about what keys are close, but what words are close. If bought is typed wrong, maybe a letter missing, brought will be a suggestion and people absentmindedly click it. I know on PC, I somehow get into a finger twister and typo "definitely" all the time, and for some reason I correct it to "defiantly", clearly a different word. I think I see the first and last letter and general length and think "yep, that's it". 

It's called typoglycemia apparently, and it's pretty cool what the brain can correct with the correct first and last letter, general length, and context 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia