AIBU to die inside a little bit every time I see 'could of'?

[MeetMeInMontauk]

Yep, it's another sanctimonious grammar-Nazi thread, so I'm going to get in early and tell all the bleeding heart virtue signallers who usually jump on these threads to do one, straight out of the gate. I'm interested in the experiences of others regarding what appears to be some sort of epidemic (at least on Facebook) or a near-ubiquitous grammatical blind spot in modern written English. For context, I live in an upcoming area of the SE but with an inescapably working class heritage and large council estate community, although this trend is by no means limited to the local FB community pages and is something that I see from even university-educated friends. How has 'could of' snuck in almost unremarked? Obviously as a corruption of the enunciation of the contraction 'could've' when spoken, but even then it makes no sense, if given even the slightest thought. Noone is saying, for example, 'Did you of one of my biscuits?', but the application of 'could of' seems almost universal in some circles. I accept that its contextual use means that nearly everyone involved understands the meaning and intent, but it's an inaccuracy that appears to be gaining continued traction. Does it make anyone else cringe, or do I just need to get back in my cage and chill the fuck out?

I love defiantly instead of definitely. It puts funny pictures in my head.

I'm just going to throw this into the mix - off of

I like the word ‘snuck’. I’m sure it will sneak into the OED if it hasn’t already.

Where I live everything is... them:

Them doors
Them people

We are so grammatically poor we can't afford Those.

No one knows how lose is spelt lose (I must see loose at least 6 times day).
People who say tooken instead of taken!

‘Them doors’ is more a dialect thing, isn’t it? (I accept I may be wrong here...)

(Please note - three dot ellipses. Not four or five or more.)

Luckything50 - that's an extreme example! Random apostrophe attacks on plurals seem to be a rising thing in the last couple of years. I find it quite interesting as well as irritating - where on earth has it come from?

It's not as bad as people posting walls of text on a forum.
Especially when they use lots of words to say something simple.

LongPinkBanana - totally disagree. You’re going way OTT on an OP that pretty much just points out how annoying it is that this completely incorrect use of language is now used so widely.

Another one for the list - why can’t people read critically and react reasonably to things anymore?

Them doors is not a dialect thing! It's bad grammar.
A friend has recently posted on FB complaining about something being 'a mind field'

YANBU. I hate 'could of'.
MrsExpo Yes, yes, yes
And, to add my own. I hate when brought and bring are used instead of took. I hear it a lot on US programmes.
"You need to bring that to school tomorrow"

On and brought when you mean bought. Stop it.

Also OP..
There's a few people that would not like you saying:
Noone is saying, for example
It's:
No one
Or
No-one.

Just saying.

@Waitingonasmiley42 for sale on a local FB page last week 'chester draws' 😁

Companies on FB offering us a 'sneak peak' of their new product/menu/premises etc. I don't know why this one bothers me so much but even writing it has filled me with rage. IT'S PEEK FFS.

OP completely agree with you and MrsExpo. I am finding posts on FB increasingly difficult to read with all the weird short form words. The latest thing which annoys me is people who write.sentences.with.a.full.stop.between.every.word! Why?

My dp says it all the time. I have told him why it's wrong but he doesn't care and I can't raise it any more as I'll upset him. Makes me cross!

Drug and dragged

*Also OP..
There's a few people that would not like you saying:
Noone is saying, for example
It's:
No one
Or
No-one.

Just saying*

Exactly

Pedants are joy suckers, especially ones who also get things wrong.

I fucking hate these threads and why ask if yabu and then say in the first sentence you're not interested in people who don't agree with you? People don't all have the same standard of education as you. Their primary influences even learning to speak may be different to yours. I read this threads as "I cannot bear the fact that these people inhabit the same spaces as me".

I once had a letter from a teacher who was making a “mute” point.

I wasn’t loving it.

Maia surely the correctness or otherwise of that sentence depends entirely on where the person who says it is when they say it?

Also OP..
There's a few people that would not like you saying:
Grammar-Nazi
It's:
Grammar Nazi
But even then its not accurate, a more accurate name would be 'grammar police'
Nazi is a political party, National Socialist GermanWorkers party.
But maybe politicising grammar is a good idea.
Some people are grammar liberals,
Some people are grammar conservatives,
Some people are grammar greens.

YANBU