to want to scream "its may have, not may of"

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sorry am not picking on anyone but keep reading this lately on here

please stop saying "may of" people

YANBU. It sets my teeth on edge.

'Of' instead of 'have' drives me crazy. My DH says it all the time & actually thinks its grammatically correct! Mind you, he also says 'was you' instead of 'were you' which drives me even more crazy

Totally agree - it's just plain wrong.

YADDDNBU

It's 'it's' as well...

is it an English thing? I don't hear it so much up here in Scotland

we say "may-uuv"

YANBU

It does seem like you`re picking on the person who started a thread here in aibu with those words about half an hour ago.

Does it matter? Maybe English isn`t their first language

Who gives a fuck , bog off to pedants corner

It doesn't annoy me as much as customers in coffee shops who say "Can I get xxx"

No. You cannot leap over the counter and get it yourself. Grrrr....

Thinking about it, I don't get offended by "may of" rather than "may have".

I (gently) corrected a friend who continuously uses 'of' when it should be 'have'. In response she said 'sorry, I never know when it's right to use 'have' so I stick with 'of'.'

I did tell her that it's never right to use 'of' but she looked sceptical and still does it. Much to my annoyance.

Always correcting my other half but then feel worried that I'm coming over a bit too...mothering for a grown man!

YANBU, scream if you want (it won't change anything, though!)

Drives me nuts too.

Facebook is full of 'would of' etc.

Numpties.

Should 've, would 've, could 've. There, does that make you feel better?

it drives me mad

I should've left out the gaps shouldn't I? I never write this, always 'have', it's the spoken form - hence the mass confusion (exclusively amongst native English speakers IME).

You need to get out more then

Drives me crackers...

tell me something I don't know

its either this or listen to dh going on about the transfer deadline

I have to steer clear of AIBU when I see 'would of' in a title. Otherwise I would leap in there and scream OF COURSE YABU YOU ILLITERATE DICKHEAD no matter what the original questions was.

Oh, and usualsuspect, it's Pedants' corner. Little matter of the apostrophe you missed.

Until I went to secondary school I thought it was 'of' rather than 'have'. My history teacher put me right when marking my first homework. No one at primary school had ever corrected it, my parents hadn't either.

I do wonder how people get to adulthood having never had this corrected by a parent/teacher etc.

You should have checked that your own grammar was correct before posting a thread criticising others'.

Then maybe you would have used the correct form of "it's" in your title.