I'm not a grammar nazi, but "should of" is driving me up the wall.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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I know right, I know people make careless grammatical mistakes all the time, including me, which is completely fine but people outright thought that "should of" is correct and use it all the time starts to get annoying
Same! I rather see shoulda than should of.
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Nice one. Who’d’ve guessed.
I wouldn't've, that's for sure!
As a non-native speaker, that hurts !!!
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😱 You are triggering my fear of more than 1 apostrophes in a word
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I’m certainly no grammar freak and English also isn’t my native language but this deives me insane… Same with your vs you’re… it’s soooo easy…
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Typing "should of" is a sign of failing to understand the basics of English grammar.
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Even as a non native speaker "should of" feels really weird to me, it just doesn't make sense. Is this a mistake English speakers do as well?
Pretty sure it's actually one of those mistakes that is made more often by native speakers than non-native speakers
It's like theyre/theire/they're - in my experience it's mostly native speakers confusing them.
Yeah, I’ve seen have in textbooks way more than ’ve and it’s baked into my brain... This mistake only happens if you hear the word before seeing it written.
It's because "should've" and "should of" are pronounced the same. It doesn't make sense because they're just writing what they hear instead of thinking "I'm using the contraction of the auxiliary verb 'have'"..
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I could care less.
My in-laws and I have a Signal group where we share fun spellings and pronunciations. We call it "udder mayham." It's fun.
I could care less.
This one is popular.
udder mayham
That's an eggcorn right?
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Crazy thing is, it’s getting widespread acceptance, and will probably accepted as grammatically correct in a few years.
A bit like how putting "would" in a third conditional if-clause has become standard in US English ("We wouldn't have been late if we would have taken a taxi").
I know language evolves but it doesn't stop my left eye from twitching whenever I hear it.
Not until the definition of the word "of" changes. It is not a synonym for the word "have," nor will be anytime soon.
Perhaps, when speaking, accent, mush-mouthed laziness, or plain ignorance will confuse "should have" and "should of", but one is objectively correct, and one is not.
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language is full of idiosyncrasies like this (my favorite is an ekename -> a nekename -> a nickname. see Wikipedia). it's perfectly conceivable that should have would be fully re-analyzed in speech like that, so the proper form of the verb to have would become of after should
Same deal with the word "Apron". It started out as napron, so people would say a napron which turned into an apron
ITT: Awful linguistics takes
Golly, I should of known that
- Golly, eye should of noun that
shoulda
I had a professor who would use “should of” in speech, probably because he read it so much and internalized it as being correct.
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