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- verb
Eye dialect misspelling and mispronunciation ofwould have orwould've .
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chained_bear commented on the word would of
See should of. And then erase this spelling from your brain.
October 29, 2007
alexz commented on the word would of
In using Google to compare 'would have gotten' to 'would of gotten' , I find that there's a 1:1 ratio in the use of Would Have compared to Would Of.
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=would+of+gotten&word2=would+have+gotten
A search on Google books shows would of in print in 1922, so it's almost a hundred years old now.
To me, the Googlefight results are a way of quantifying the relative use of a phrase. I feel that when the usage becomes 1:1, it's no longer an uncommon way of spelling, and that the language has evolved, much to the dismay of 'strict grammarians' who cling to their Strunk and White.
March 13, 2013
bilby commented on the word would of
Yeah, rite.
March 13, 2013