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| Source: London Evening Standard, 11 August, 2014, p. 5. Also online |
I’d like to believe that this is simply a typographical error (heinous enough), but (as I've said in a previous post) I hear so many people say ‘bought’ when they mean ‘brought’ — though not the other way round so far — that it seems to be a genuine, if incomprehensible, misuse of words. I’ve yet to discover how such people deal with other tenses (‘buy’ for ‘bring’?).
More pertinent here, and what prevents this mangle simply repeating an earlier one, is that the verb seems erroneous: can someone bring a tribunal?
bought for brought
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