Could of, would of and should of...

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NO!

could have
would have
should have

It's past tense...it's stating what you could have done, would have done or should havedone. Could've, should've, would've are actual contractions of those terms...they're in the dictionary and everything!

It's not could'f, would'f or should'f is it?
'Of' makes no fucking sense! Stop using it!

I'm not generally one for the grammar pedantry but this one makes people look thick in a way that other common grammar mistakes don't imo.

Sorry...but I felt the need to express. Boot me about if you want.

I wouldn't google it. I just did and I now need to bleach my eyes and wipe my search history

La-Z-boy

Maybe its just me chester draws

Chaise lounge.

NO! BAD!

It's a fucking chaise longue. Because it's a fucking long chair!

Gets right on my ovaries, that does (another professional pedant linguist here).

And what's this current trend for adding letters to small words? To/too, of/off - it's od(d).

Rouge Galley is of course a Rogues' Gallery. It should be Rouges Galley, actually. Very few students get that part of the (to me) funny slide! I also get upset by effect/affect, imply/infer and I am making a stand for "pairs of compasses" to draw circles, not compasses which are used to find north, even though all around me the world has moved on.

YANBU - it grates on me too. It is not necessarily picking on someone who uses it but it really cannot be excused as a spelling mistook - we are all guilty of that. It is the incorrect use of a word (the of) which has no place being attached to could, should or would.

It is just wrong and sadly there are still some who excuse it as ' the English language is evolving'

Chester draws sounds like a headline from the local paper's sports page.

One that bugs me is how people mix up pallet, palette and palate.

I'm seeing a great deal of ' are day out' lately my guess is that it may have re-evolved from text speak 'r' but it makes me unreasonably sad.

Mac and cheese is just a name for a food dish, it's nowhere near as bad as outright errors "abit".

Posters who make these mistakes remain unphased by this criticism.

Less/fewer is one I pick up on a lot (alot ). But that's cause DH has only just drilled which is which into me at the age of 31

It's people typing what they think that they hear, without thinking of the sense of it.

I wonder how much "text speak" is to blame?

I am sat here waiting for an explanation.

I quite like it when people post about supermarket isles. Gives it a tropical feel.

Nothing phases you and I.

Macaroni cheese is the name of a dish. Mac and cheese is people writing what they think they've heard the dish being called. It is the same as could of instead of could've and chester draws instead of chest of drawers, or even communal garden variety.

Most disappointed with the ladyboy chair. I guess it's a doggy dog world.

Communal garden mistakes LOL.
I am guilty off adding letters too words. Onn and of, like. Literally.

Surely Mac and cheese is an Americanism?

I say 'of' instead of 'have'. I never realised it was wrong until fairly recently when someone close corrected me. I thought it was a bit odd for them to say that as after 40+ years of speaking like that I just presumed I was right! I shall try to be more conscious of it. I also say chester draws, probably because all my family say it. I remember one teacher correcting me when I said 'try and' ... she said it was 'try to'. However, because it was taught at school. I believe I know 'their, there, they're' etc and also how to use apostrophes.

"Surely Mac and cheese is an Americanism?"

I would've thought so.

I like these threads. I may have finally learned a few things!

I have to stop and think about loose/lose, I have yet to conquer (conker) affect/effect. They just will not go in.

Mac n cheese is a branded product, isn't it?

Yanbu, winds me up!

alot