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Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny
"Could of" is the poor spelling of what people hear when the speaker *really* said "could've".
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Yep. And the first-person narrator of the story was an individual with a limited education who was "writing" the narrative in a journal. So it DID make a certain sense within the fictional narrative. Like I said, I understood why it was done--and it even made sense from a "realism" standpoint. It's just that that knowledge still didn't help me NOT trip over nearly every single occurrence of it early on. *shrug*