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If you're uninterested in something you're unconcerned, indifferent, bored or basically 'not bothered about it'. Disinterested means you do not have a stake in the outcome, you're impartial, not biased and so on. I was once described as an 'interested disinterested party' at a public inquiry...

Yes, you're right - I've even got myself muddled up there, which near enough proves the point I was making!! Touche. What I was thinking of was along the lines of people using inflammable to mean 'not flammable' (such as inactive meaning 'not active' and so on) when it doesn't.

Fair enough. But some poor usage alters the meaning (such as disinterested / uninterested, or using the word inflammable when you mean flammable) and the trouble with incorrect usage is that the reader then doesn't know whether the author is using the terms in the 'old, proper' way, or in the...

Less hilly, fewer hills.

Neastgull is correct. Bought is purchased, brought is taken along with you. However "Put it into someone else's name" isn't wholly right I don't think. This would mean that you would be changing someone's name to 'Joe Fiesta Bloggs' or something wouldn't it?