"Brang" a real word?

reigninblood

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?

UnrealQueen

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

Sleipnir

Brang is not a word.

dod

Brang is not an english word.

tribble

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


tribble

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.

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.

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

Stark

I dun brung it with me.

brought
bring
will bring

There you go.

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.

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

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.

Lump

it's supposed to read no-one afaik.


John

simu

No one ----> 2 words

Nobody

---

> 1 word

People probably mix the two of them up!

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!

Kold

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

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....

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.

pickarooney

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

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.



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.

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...

Makaveli

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

pickarooney

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

Makaveli

4/5 is roughly right.

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.

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

Praetorian

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

Kold

Originally posted by Makaveli
Our language is Gaeilge.

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

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.

Ender-

HELLO GENTLEMEN!!!

Amz

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

Ender-

sorry
.
.
HELLO GENTLEMEN AND LADIES!

Amz

Ender-

Banned for 1 week.

AndrewWK

Bit harsh, no?

Amz

No.

tuxy

yes

AndrewWK

What rule did he break that warrants a ban?

SantaHoe

Originally posted by AndrewWK
What rule did he break that warrants a ban?

Rule #278
Section 3
Paragraph 4

Everyone knows that.

Praetorian

Rule #278
Section 3
Paragraph 4

Everyone knows that.

It was rule 1 and a little part of rule 2 that he broke. No need for the sarcasm.

AndrewWK

But he was courteous..

tuxy

its not often someone has to be banned from this forum
so the ban feature has to be tested on someone every once in a while to make sure its working

Berger

-

AndrewWK

LOL! definitly is

CrossReach

I was typing brang into a post on fb and it underlined it in red. I cannot believe brang is not a word! I brang it up on Google but they bringed up nothing.

pickarooney

So you drug this thread up?

deman

And SEVEN years later "Brang" is still not in the OED

It's not a word, never has been a word and never will be a word in the English language!

deman

deman wrote: »

And SEVEN years later "Brang" is still not in the OED

It's not a word, never has been a word and never will be a word in the English language!

I wish I could say the same of "alot", I think it's in some dictionaries.

deman

bluewolf wrote: »

I wish I could say the same of "alot", I think it's in some dictionaries.

aswell as well

CrossReach

very clever =0)

Slouch

If someone mentions 'alot', just bring up a picture of your 'alot'. :cool:

Bunnybelle1089

Calibos wrote: »

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

Yes, a tap of the spacebar will do so it'll be "no one"