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Old 02-10-2015, 04:54 PM   #21723
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Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny View Post
"Could of" is the poor spelling of what people hear when the speaker *really* said "could've".
And when you're dealing with an undereducated narrator or speaker, sometimes that dialect note is a significant character point. A book I'm editing deals with that in a few places, where the narrator transcribes what was heard without realizing that the speaker said something different. (In one case, the conversation's shown from both sides, and it's important that we see how one of the characters misheard something.)
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