It is not "WOULD OF" it is "WOULD HAVE"

[frumpygrumpy]

"she would of complained" NO

"she would have complained"

AAaaaaargh!

someone someone say something

Aw jeez, this corner isn't for me......I tried it again and still the same.......

Now I'm boring myself.

yes, and .. your point is what exactly?

Thankyou.

And it's not 'off of' ever.

I saw that too!

FGS learn some ENglish you lot.

Thank you so much Frumpy.

And while we're at it, it's different FROM, not different TO.

Oooh, I so agree with you, spidermama.

This drives me nuts too!!!

It is second only to people saying they have "brought" something from the shops. It is bought FFS!!!!!!!

Or that the teacher 'learned' them something at school. It's taught.

A quick browse at Ebay or Mumsnet reveals, I'm afraid' that we're fighting a losing battle.

The ' after afraid was a slip of the keyboard. Honest.

I can't help getting a bit twitchy about this particular one too . Think it stems from having an English teacher for a mother, who would always correct any grammatical mistake I made loudly!

I still find myself wincing over "I seen" and, if the culprit is DH sometimes I let slip with "You....?" He just looks at me blankly, until I answer myself "SAW!"

I'm not usually a pedant but this one really bugs me too!

And while we ranting...it's 'aitch' not 'haitch'!!!

My mother has passed on her grammar intolerance awareness to me.

I also wince when people say 'less apples' when it should be 'fewer apples' and when people say 'which of these two do you like best?' when it should be 'better.'

i thought i was the only one with an extreme and irrational desire to stab pencils through the screen...

i want to type 'excuse me, but did you know the correct spelling of of in this context is 've?'

Ah! It's like the mother ship calling me home!

On Christmas day I was ranting because the instructions on my ds2's Nintendo DS game said 'off of'!

My pet hate is people who say pacific when they mean specific. It drives me potty.

And New-Kew-lur for nuclear.

You think that's bad? My dp said "pacific" instead of specific yesterday, I almost packed my things and left...

oops cross posts due to not reading thread

At least its not just me then!!

Apparently Keats sometimes used 'of' rather than 'have'. I presume it's a misunderstanding of the contraction "would've". (as I've just noticed madwoman says). Spider, I've a suspicion the different from/to thing may be British/US variants, but would have to check.

Haitch and aitch were used as shibboleths, so I'm told, to distinguish Catholics from Protestants in N. Ireland. I've no problem with haitch (Irish Catholic mother) - it doesn't cause any communicative problems.

settles comfortably into Pedants' Corner

..and when people say "She borrowed me that book" instead of "loaned".