I'm utterly convinced that people use 'of' instead of 'have' on purpose, amirite?

Have course they do.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I of committed several war crimes

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Should of, would of, could of.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I actually figured out why it's even a thing - it comes from the abreviasion of 've - i.e. should've, which sounds like should of. Or did everyone already know that?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yes.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yeah I think most people know but it's part of the vernacular like "y'all" or people in my area say "it don't matter" instead of "it doesn't matter" but in a lot of cases including my own I know "it don't matter" isn't grammatically correct but I say it that way anyway because a majority of the people I interact with say it like that. When I lived in the Southern U.S. I picked up a different dialect after a few years and a bit of an accent, a different accent that is. Social media especially something with a character count is pretty informal and anywhere emojis and abbreviations are common I wouldn't put much stock in people being grammatically correct.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

A lot of U.S. folks didn't pay attention in English class 😂😂 Pretty sad for natural born Americans when non-English speaking country folks know the language better than native Americans

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I mean English isn't the language of native Americans

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Small n

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I believe that it's the way it is, My mother tongue is not English, but its my favourite language and rivals my birth language, and I read a whole lot of English everyday, I make an effort everyday to understand English, and I am even learning Latin by way of English.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Now learn colloquial dialects all throughout the United States where grammar rules shift and sway like the breeze.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

So many people "misuse" it that it's truly become a dialect.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

omg taylor swift?!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I of your balls B)

by Anonymous 1 year ago

\*Have

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Nice

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Nice name

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I of never used it myself. Well kind have maybe

by Anonymous 1 year ago

🤣

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"Pacifically" drives me up the bloody wall! People even say it as well!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Defiantly instead of definitely is my personal hellhole

by Anonymous 1 year ago

SAME. No one ever points this out, either!! My husband and I have an inside joke. In person, we actually say "defiantly" to each other when we mean to say "definitely."

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Non native speaker, was convinced definately was a correct alternative spelling, cause I've read it so often online.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The equivalent of toddler-speak lol

by Anonymous 1 year ago

thanks for being so Pacific with your pet peeve

by Anonymous 1 year ago

/Expresso has entered the chat

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You've never seen that movie specific rim?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yikes.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Or "nukular"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This Atlanticly gets on my nerves

by Anonymous 1 year ago

What does that word even refer to?? Tf is pacifically?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

What *specifically* is the word supposed mean!??

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Pacific Ocean like. No but more of doing something in a calm or peaceful manner.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Sorry to havefend you

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I can only assume you mean when people say "could of", "should of" etc, instead of the correct way of "could have" or "should have" because they are pronouncing it or spelling it the way it sounds when those words are put into a contraction (could've, should've) as opposed to how they should be spelled. And yes, that irks the hell out of me.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Well they shouldn't've done that.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

\*Shouldn't of

by Anonymous 1 year ago

\*shudna

by Anonymous 1 year ago

What part of shorn't don't you understand?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

*shudn‘at of

by Anonymous 1 year ago

*shunt

by Anonymous 1 year ago

And it's been around for years, I remember seeing it in back in like 2014 too

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This is exactly it. As a 7th grade ELA teacher, I have had to explain this many times to my students. They are always surprised at it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

How though? I learned contractions in maybe 3rd or 4th grade, it seems strange that they wouldn't know this until 7th

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It isn't something I used to see much of, but over time curriculum has become too packed and standardized tests so heavily used for accountability, that things like spelling, phonics, and parts of speech are covered less and less. When you don't know how those things work together, you don't notice what is grammatically wrong as long as it makes sense to you. People rely on spell check which won't hit on "would of" as it's not technically spelled wrong, so it must be right, and it sounds right to the person using it. I am sure there are other reasons as well.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

>I ~~have~~ of had to explain this

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I of ofed to explain this

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Alright, but when has ‘have' ever sounded like ‘of'? ‘Have' sounds more ‘uv' than ‘ov' if anything.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

People often pronounce or spell the way they hear it and part of that could be blamed on lazy or improper pronunciation. The same might be said when you see people writing "for all intensive purposes" when it's really "for all intents and purposes", or "could care less" instead of couldn't care less", eggcorns" instead of "acorns", etc. There's even a phrase for this type of malapropism, and it's literally called eggcorns - which means it's a result of mishearing or misinterpreting an actual word or phrase.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Wait people think it's eggcorns :D These are all so wild as someone who learned English as a second language. When you need to manually learn everything, you of course would then know all of these from the get-go. Especially would have/would've. You practice that one a bunch.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There are people who do say "eggcorns", unfortunately. That's actually where the term "eggcorns" to denote a malapropism of a word or phrase came from. Unfortunately, I've also seen people use "udderly" when they meant "utterly". Despite the initial amusement that may bring, it's actually quite sad. Just be thankful people haven't started spelling library as "liberry".

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I know somebody who's been saying "matters well" for "might as well" their whole life, and only recently learned the correct one. "I matters well go to the store since I have an hour to kill anyway."

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It isn't that 'have' sounds like 'of' but rather in contractions, such as 'should've', the pronounciation tends to sound more like 'should of' instead of 'should have'. So, if you only hear 'I should've done this' you won't necessarily know that it means 'I should HAVE done this'.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I haven't seen this so much but what irks me is the use of "his" instead of "he's"....

by Anonymous 1 year ago

there is no way first language english speakers genuinely get that wrong

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I've seen it myself… on Facebook

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's the only one you've noticed? There are probably hundreds of examples of this. One of my biggest pet peeves (I have a lot lol) is how often people type WOMEN when they mean WOMAN and vice versa. It's absurd how common it is.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Oh I notice those errors too, but this one grinds my gears especially since 'of' shares none of the same letters as 'have', it's breaking up a perfectly good contraction and, worst of all, it isn't even a verb but a fricking preposition. It's not just wrong, it is incredibly wrong.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

When things piss you off, sometimes you just of to laugh

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Of you done this, too?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

two*

by Anonymous 1 year ago

When things piss you havef*

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Have Mice and Men was a very different book.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It bugs me when native English speakers do this and English isn't even my first language.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

native English speakers often speak poor English. The thing is, this is an extremely well known fact around the world. What nobody talks about though, is that many (if not most) native speakers of practically every other major language around the world speak in quite a broken/improper manner most of the time too. Hell, I'm willing to bet you yourself don't speak your own native language perfectly all the time. If any other bilingual/trilingual/etc person sees this and really thinks about it, they will probably find that they also do it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's true, but saying "should of" instead of "should've" is an extremely egregious example of speaking poorly. I assure you I'm equally annoyed by people making mistakes of that caliber in my native language.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

But that's not a speech thing. It's a writing thing.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

At least multilingual people have an excuse. People who speak and have spoken only English their entire lives, however, don't. In fact, sometimes I think that multilinguals have better English grammar than most native English speakers themselves!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Ehhh, I think people are just stupid, and learn word of mouth sometimes more than they do from their english classes.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Ah yes the slow death of grammar

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"I have been on the internet every single day for decades" Don't you mean "I of been on the internet every single day for decades"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's much better than reading "you're a looser"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I believe in Hanlon's Razor and feel it's more likely they're just dumb and confusing the sound of the contraction and spelling it out as they hear it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"Irregardless" drives me nuts. As does, "I could care less." Do people not listen to their own words?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Ugh, unfortunately some dictionaries have actually added "irregardles" because so many idiots use it. Same with "entitled" as "film entitled Pulp Fiction". It's sad, LOL.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The way I see it, people mix this up because when speaking they abbreviate their words like 'Should've' and 'could've' which sounds closer to 'should of' and 'could of' then 'should have' and 'could have'. I don't really know, maybe I should have looked into it more and then I could of gave a better explanation.  (Yes I did that on purpose)

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This is 100% the right answer lol. Should uv would uv could uv

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"Coulda" is best. Instantly offends every pedantic neurotic

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Speaking as a pedantic neurotic, I don't mind that one, because nobody thinks it's the correct spelling. People use it as slang. When people say "could of" they're trying to write properly.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Until eventually someone comes along and says "Periodt," leaving us wondering whether they were a master troll or fully stupid

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"Prolly" is up there for me. I strongly dislike it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Prolly just feels like colorful slang to me.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I have never seen that before

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I envy you, I really do

by Anonymous 1 year ago

But like give me an example, I don't understand how the words could be interchanged, sounds lunatic.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I could of sworn that everyone on the internet must of seen that by now. I guess not.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Thank you because I was trying to figure it out too! So it's more of a "could of, should of, would of," scenario.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Exactly, when people are writing in the perfect tenses

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think those people are called 'the have-nots'

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I remember when I was a child somebody tried to convince me that the phrase was "on accident" instead of "by accident" and I'm still angry about it

by Anonymous 1 year ago

People just don't understand english anymore.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Kids are too busy learning about all the genders to be expected to learn and use proper grammar, give them a break.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's the last proof of the decline of the zoomers.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

>It's the last proof of the decline have the zoomers. FTFY

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Why you little!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Oh God bruh so Tru fr on a stack no cap

by Anonymous 1 year ago

What is this language you speak, Earthling?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Based

by Anonymous 1 year ago

on GANG bruh frfr

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Not as bad as "Did he use**d** to?"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Hear me out. Just because others have been corrected on their poor grammar, doesn't mean everyone on earth now knows the correct way. There's 8 billion of us. We're going to keep repeating the same mistakes.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I should of have.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I do

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Should of and should've sound exactly alike. It bugs you when people say it, or when they spell it incorrectly?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Of you ever used of instead of of?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They should use "'ve" that's the proper shortening i.e. "should've" for "should have". That's why people get confused because phonetically it's close to "off"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

this reminds me of when people say "a whole nother"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Thank you. I am so sick of it

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I noticed something like this with combining words that are often together but are not one word like ‘she's my ‘bestfriend' or I'm going home to ‘workout'. *I know workout is it's own word when used as a noun but should be separated when used as a verb.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They also use on instead of by I'd did something "on" accident. I don't remember being able to sit on accident

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think I say it lot but it's in contraction forms. Could've or should've really sounds like Could of or should of

by Anonymous 1 year ago

id say people arent certain which spelling is correct and since this particular mistake is becoming more widespread, more people think this is the correct spelling. it is fanning its own flames

by Anonymous 1 year ago

no it's not on purpose people are actually dumb

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I hate "embarrassed of" (which definitely should be "embarrassed *by*"). *BY* ppl, it's **BY**🧐

by Anonymous 1 year ago

No people just don't care. Like it doesn't matter that much, sure it's technically wrong but if people know what you mean, it isn't that big a problem.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

No for real though, I think this guy is so right, and it's a very scary thing to let slide because then we're on the slippery slope of having degenerative grammar disorder as a society.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

People on tiktok are stupid

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That just means you didn't notice it until someone else pointed it out.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's a minor issue compared to the incorrect use of their, there and they're.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Same as saying on accident instead of by accident

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Cue all of the so called language experts saying it's just "evolving". It's their go-to excuse for not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Do y'all not realize it's just people are hearing should've as the contraction? It's literally just result of hearing and assumption. The sound " ‘ve"becomes "of" instead of have for lost people. It's not that serious

by Anonymous 1 year ago