I’ve seen would/could of so often lm beginning to think it’s correct.

[ArseInTheCoOpWindow]

It is would have and could have isn’t it?

Or am l losing my mind?

There are several persistently aimless / possibly even lost posters on Mumsnet - "wandering" about this and that, "wandering if" and I just can't help but wonder at it all.

I HATE it. The only thing I hate more is how many people are using the verb 'borrow' for 'lend/loan'. You don't fucking borrow someone money, you loan it.

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Interesting point about teachers not realising it's a thing. I'm in my 40s and made this mistake in an essay written during my PGCE 21 years ago. It was intended as an exercise to flush out mistakes and it worked - I've never made the same mistake again.

Although I was a reader, my teenage reading wasn't directed. I therefore didn't know what I didn't know and grammar wasn't taught. Mind you, neither was figurative terminology. My English teachers taught me nothing back then of what I teach now.

Also wary for weary is another which grates.

Eye wander watt there bean tort.

Their barley litter it.

Watt effect is they're education have on them?

'Been' for 'being' is another one. Poor education, or linguistic change? The theory in linguistics is that, while some distinctions are lost, presumably because they cease to be important, others spring up elsewhere. No doubt someone in a university somewhere is keeping track of all these changes.

I hate it when I see ect being used instead of etc.

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