O ye have little faith?

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Dear random poster on other thread, it's 'O ye of little faith' not 'O ye have little faith'. I'm usually quite good at suppressing my pedantry - but that got to me.

She would of known that if she'd of read that bit of the bible

My current irritation is 'step foot'. It's everywhere!

Stepford? As in wives?

@campion She would have known...

Loving that someone is using have instead of of.

Oooh.

Yes campion. I’ve noticed that ‘step foot’ has appeared recently. It’s ‘set foot’’. As in ‘I wouldn’t set foot in there again’.

BlessYourCottonSocks
Not sure whether to laugh or cry at your 'correction'.

JayAlfredPrufrock
Yes,the irony!

Why 'correction'? Do you think you were right?

There is no such thing as 'would of'...

@BlessYourCottonSocks

Why 'correction'? Do you think you were right?

There is no such thing as 'would of'...

campion was obviously joking!

I hope so!

It was both her and JAlfred seeming to imply I was mistaken...I got slightly confused that they both thought it was correct to use 'of' and not 'have'.

Something that’s appearing more frequently now is “alot”. Also “abit” has started appearing too.

I love the 'Alot'.

hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

Highly annoying. I recently read 'Queenie' ( waste of time ) and noticed that instead of using the word 'sliver' - as in ' a sliver of glass/ cake' etc, the word 'slither' was used. Twice !! I was really annoyed. Either it's some sort of 'in' joke or people are just rather dense.

BlessYourCottonSocks

I was joking. Honest! In fact I started a thread a while back on the very subject of the misuse of 'of'. Its ubiquity is a depressing indication of the current state of general literacy, thus JayAlfred's comment was picking up on the irony of someone misusing 'have' in place of 'of'.

I was obviously trying to be too clever, something my mum used to warn me about. And in Yorkshire that's not a compliment

So much confusion in one small thread 🙄

@campion you are my new BFF.

Cheers @JayAlfredPrufrock. Glad someone's on my wavelength!