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"Brang" a real word?

  • 30-01-2004 1:49pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭


    What is the story here? I say brang ALL THE TIME instead of brought. I always thought it was just a variation but by girlfriend pulls me up on it all the time and says it's not a real word. It's not in dictionary.com but if you google it you see that in some dialects it is used. I'm australian born, I wonder is it a remnent of my old accent (I moved to Ireland 12 years ago but I stll have some things like pronouncing the letter "r" I say "aaarr" whereas Irish people pronounce it more like "oar"). Maybe it will be one of those words that gets accepted as a word as so many people use it?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭UnrealQueen


    hmm..brang. Nope, never heard of it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    Brang is not a word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭dod


    Brang is not an english word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭tribble


    "brang" is in common parlance in working class areas like Bray.
    It is also common with 3-5 year olds.


    tribble


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    if it is a word, then collage is where i go to... people are idiots. just because they outnumber you doesn't mean that they are correct. kill 'em. KILL 'EM ALL.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭reigninblood


    "brang" is in common parlance in working class areas like Bray.
    It is also common with 3-5 year olds.


    tribble

    WTF! I wish I BRANG my beating stick so I could do some beating with you. If you ask me I don't trust someone who uses the word parlance in everyday conversation!


    So noone else uses it? I mean its not like saying "I rided my bike (or your ma)" it doesn't sound out of place if you ask me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Actually it is a word..... brung ( P ) Pronunciation Key (brng)
    v. Usage Problem
    A past tense and a past participle of bring. See Usage Note at bring.


    I stand corrected.

    John


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,853 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    I dun brung it with me.

    brought
    bring
    will bring

    There you go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 568 ✭✭✭newgrange


    From: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/brang.html

    In some dialects the past tense of "bring" is "brang" and "brung" is the past participle; but in standard English both are "brought."

    By all means use 'brang' in conversation among your mates, but don't use its written form in your thesis.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Is 'noone' (which I cant help but read as noon) a word? Or am I missing something? A tap of the spacebar perhaps?? :D:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭KlodaX


    "I wish I brang my beating stick"

    LMAO ... I haven't heard that word being used in soooo long!

    its like a past tense of brought .... :dunno: but brought is past tense?

    I dunno ... I not was the goodest at english.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    it's supposed to read no-one afaik.


    John


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    No one ----> 2 words

    Nobody
    > 1 word

    People probably mix the two of them up!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭reigninblood


    Sorry that was meant to read "no one". Jesus my grammar really is in the spotlight. If it is used in some dialects then why don't dictionary.com have any listing for it at all? I'm 23 and it has only been pointed out to me now. No one (I was careful there!) has ever looked at me funny when I used it in the 22 years (well 21 that first year was a little quiet) i've been saying it.
    My girlfriend is a teacher however and tought english to chinese students for 2 years so I suppose she is on permanent grammar watch as a result......heh heh that reminds me one time she was teaching the chinese students the phrase

    "When I (something) I will (something)"

    she went through the whole class and no one (aaah ha nearly) got it right, all she got was "when i dog barking I will small cat" and other such gems and finally she got to this guy who stood up and said "when I go to bed I will masturbate".....she pissed herslef and had to say well done because he's the only one who got it and to make matters worse none of the rest of them knew what "masturbate" meant so they all typed it into their electronic talking dictionaries which they ALL have and the room was filled with what sounded like one of Stephen Hawkings home made porno's!


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Cork people seem to think the plural of you is "ye".


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    Since when is a dictionary a comprehensive list of words in a language? It's a catch-up game. If a word is commonly enough used, it will eventually get put into dictionaries. Take for e.g. the amount of computer-related words that have been adopted in relatively recent years into dictionaries. Do you think dictionaries from 1980 had the word 'internet' in them?

    People put too much stock in dictionaries when arguing whether something 'is a word or not'. People forget that it's what is commonly spoken that determines what is in a dictionary, not the other way around.

    From dictionary.com:
    dic·tion·ar·y
    n. pl. dic·tion·ar·ies
    A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.

    Note 'A list' of words, not 'the list' of words.

    So yes, if 'brang' is used by a number of people and has a definite meaning, it's clearly a word, whether it's recognized by a particular dictionary or not.

    ...but I wouldn't use it in a game of Scrabble....


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Well surely if there's already a word for it we don't need your retarded assed pronunciation raping our language purely because you're an uneducated fool.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 34,942 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Conformist!
    How can you ever become a great writer if you don't make up words?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    Could you not just say brought?

    Originally posted by Kold
    Well surely if there's already a word for it we don't need your retarded assed pronunciation raping our language purely because you're an uneducated fool.

    Our language is Gaeilge. :p



    But on things like this anyway, what is it with everyone now saying "by accident" and in some even worse cases "by an accident", whatever happened to "accidently" and "by mistake"?
    Just something that annoys me.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 34,942 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Originally posted by Makaveli

    whatever happened to "accidently"

    It never existed to begin with.
    Of course you're more than welcome to invent the word... ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    A spelling mistake, so sorry.
    Do you spell out the words when you talk? :p


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 34,942 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    No but I generally aim for roughly the right number of syllables :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    4/5 is roughly right.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,853 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Originally posted by Kold
    Cork people seem to think the plural of you is "ye".

    And Dublin people think it's "yous" :) "Ye" is acceptable in my opinion, it's too confusing to use "you" in both the singular and the plural.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Originally posted by Kold
    Cork people seem to think the plural of you is "ye".


    It is cock muncher....

    ye2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (y)
    pron.
    (used with a pl. verb) Archaic. You.
    (used with a sing. verb) Archaic. You.


    John


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    There is no need to resort to name calling Lump. Don't do it again please.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Originally posted by Makaveli
    Our language is Gaeilge. :p

    Seeing as I'm English, our language is not gaeilge


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    Originally posted by Kold
    Seeing as I'm English, our language is not gaeilge
    You missed a period there, does that mean you're pregnant?
    No?
    I didn't think so.
    My case in point.
    Thank you ladies and gentlemen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 739 ✭✭✭Ender-


    HELLO GENTLEMEN!!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    Ender - can you try and be a little more constructive in future.


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