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Brung or brang?

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    #32
    AudreyHepburn
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    Neither. The correct way to say it is brought.


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    #33
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    Neither. The correct way to say it is brought.
    Henry Higgins taught you well. ;)


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    #34
    branie2
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    By George, you've got it!


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    #35
    Boom_Bap
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    Bringeded


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    #36
    ILoveYourVibes
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    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Bringeded
    That's EXACTLY how my mom says it.


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    #37
    DaeryssaOne
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    My head hurt reading that opening post I''m not going to lie.

    The sheer amount of bloggers and influencers or whatever the flip they're calling themselves talking about 'loosing' weight makes my blood boil.

    Loose - my trousers are loose because I lost weight
    Lose - my trousers are tight because I need to lose weight


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    #38
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    DaeryssaOne wrote: »
    My head hurt reading that opening post I''m not going to lie.

    The sheer amount of bloggers and influencers or whatever the flip they're calling themselves talking about 'loosing' weight makes my blood boil.

    Loose - my trousers are loose because I lost weight
    Lose - my trousers are tight because I need to lose weight
    You just brung the thread way off track.


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    #39
    Silent Running
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Silent Running


    The one that bothers me most is... it needs bringing.


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    #40
    evolving_doors
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    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Oooooooh look at you with your fancy education looking down on us peasants with our poor grammar.

    Seeing as you are so well educated, explain why 'I done...' or 'I seen...' is incorrect. I use both, people understand what i'm talking about, isn't that all that matters??

    'Seen' belongs to 'see' as a past participle. It needs have or had to make a compound verb.
    Have seen is the present perfect.

    Basic rule ...use 'have' if it's recent past.

    Did you see the movie yesterday?
    Yes I have/ I've seen it.

    Did you see that movie last year?
    Yes I saw it.

    Did you see that movie yesterday?
    Yes I seen it and I'm a culchie ignoramus from the bog.


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    #41
    [Deleted User]
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    There's a woman in my office who uses "loven" as the past participle of the verb 'love'

    "I would of loven to go see Westlife in Croke Park"


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    #42
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,432 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    The ones that get to me lately are the amount of people now that don't know ..

    ... the difference between countable and uncountable nouns. It's number of people, not amount.


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    #43
    begbysback
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    Bringeth He who hath no grammar before me, and I shall bringeth fury on such a peasant


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    #44
    evolving_doors
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    Zascar wrote: »
    Here you go.

    I'm pretty sure they teach basic English grammar in all schools, but clearly not well enough. Personally I think it does matter - just because people understand you doesn't mean it's correct. It's fine to use slang etc sometimes, we all do, but believing that the above is correct when it's not - it's just one of my pet peeves.

    But of a redundant adverb there.
    When are your thoughts not from your person?

    You'll also need to punctuate that etcetera contraction as it's an abbreviation.


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    #45
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Braught.

    We’ll learn you up real good. Mmm-hmm...


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    #46
    evolving_doors
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    begbysback wrote: »
    Bringeth He who hath no grammar before me, and I shall bringeth fury on such a peasant

    You forgot a full stop.

    Bet you did Nazi that one? :pac:


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    #47
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,673 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Inspired by this thread, I have decided that the past tense of ring is rought.


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    #48
    hi5
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    There's a woman in my office who uses "loven" as the past participle of the verb 'love'

    "I would of loven to go see Westlife in Croke Park"

    'Of' instead of 'have'.


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    #49
    Gwynplaine
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    I brung de tamahas on Sahurdah


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    #50
    [Deleted User]
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    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    on Sahurdah

    Is that Matt Cooper ?

    Anyone hear the lad talking about Tesla on Matt Cooper the other evening ?
    He kept calling them Tesler :confused:


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    #51
    Marcusm
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    There's a woman in my office who uses "loven" as the past participle of the verb 'love'

    "I would of loven to go see Westlife in Croke Park"

    Hopefully she would at least like that rendered as

    I would have loven to go...


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    #52
    Hamsterchops
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    ...he brought it with him.

    Brought
    Brung
    Brang :confused:


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    #53
    xiba vajo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭xiba vajo


    he brang it wit him and he thrun it down dere, so he did


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    #54
    wiggle16
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    There's a woman in my office who uses "loven" as the past participle of the verb 'love'

    "I would of loven to go see Westlife in Croke Park"

    I do this too. I thought it was a general Dublin thing?


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    #55
    Scorpion Sting
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    Another gas one is drowneded.

    “I saw on the news last night a young wan drowneded in a pool.”


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    #56
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I hate dove for dived and, as someone I know says, clum for climbed,


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    #57
    wiggle16
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    Scorpion Sting wrote: »
    Another gas one is drowneded.

    “I saw on the news last night a young wan drowneded in a pool.”

    I also do this too...... :o


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    #58
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,669 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Zascar wrote: »
    The worst ones for me are:

    I done
    I seen

    Seriously. This is wrong. Boggles my mind how many Irish people think this is correct grammar. It's not - correct is: I did & I Saw. Or: I have done & I have seen.

    Please people - read this and fcuking remember it.

    Once overheard a small kid day to his dad "I seed a fire brigade". His tracksuit wearing father replied, "No, it's 'I SEEN a fire brigade'."

    It's a fupping fire ENGINE, you reprobate.


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    #59
    Victor
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    Brangt!
    McGaggs wrote: »
    It's a fupping fire ENGINE, you reprobate.
    They call them fire appliances these days.


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    #60
    Peatys
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    There's a woman in my office who uses "loven" as the past participle of the verb 'love'

    "I would of loven to go see Westlife in Croke Park"

    Must be a Dublin thing, i don't see aa'in writing with that


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    #61
    Baron Kurtz
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    evolving_doors wrote: »
    But of a redundant adverb there.
    When are your thoughts not from your person?

    You'll also need to punctuate that etcetera contraction as it's an abbreviation.


    Et cetera is two words, is it?


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