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"Brang" a real word?

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  • #52
    Bloody*Mary
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭Bloody*Mary


    reigninblood wrote: »
    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?

    No mate ,not a proper word 'brought' is the one you want.

    never heard a single person using that word.

    pronunciation and grammar are two different fish.


  • #53
    tac foley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    reigninblood wrote: »
    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?


    It's one of those words, I guess, that appears wherever an, ahem, lower grade of English is spoken.

    F'rinstance, I use an made-up past tense of a modern term - 'emailing' - instead, I write, or even say, 'emole'.

    Seems sensible to me.

    But 'brang' is NOT a word in the English language. Trust me, I'm a fluent speakeriser. ;)

    tac


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