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Old 09-20-2011, 04:06 AM   #82
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Originally Posted by amward View Post
Yes !!!!!AAARRRGGGGHHH! This is about my most hated grammatical mistake and it doesn't even make sense.
There's a certain logic to it in that the reason for it is obviously that people hear the spoken contraction "would've" and mistakenly think that it's "would of", rather than an elided form of "would have", but there's absolutely no excuse for it - it's just ignorance.
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