Thread: Are contractions hard for readers if English isn't their first language?
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Old 01-04-2011, 12:41 PM   #23
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but I had never heard of, or seen someone say "would of" instead of "would have" before and this guy kept correcting them.
This is one of my absolute biggest pet peeves. Americans say "would've" all the time and phonetically it sounds like "would of" so they spell it that way. I correct just about everyone on my facebook page who does that. I can't help it, it drives me nuts. I've even corrected a couple of my friends who are teachers! *facepalm*
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