"Could of" - Gah!

[james_tigerwoods]

Where has the oft used phrase "could of" come from - it's could have FFS!

Not a rant, per se as I'm on my way out of the office but I'm sick of seeing it

No, my own grammar isn't perfect, I know!

[hugo a gogo]

shirley you could've worked it out?

it's people mishearing 'could've'

[mouseymousey]

I'm with you on this, it's the most annoying error that I see on the internet.

Could of, should of, would of. So annoying!

[Papa_Hotel]

Probably the same morons that can't spell ambulance. Amiright?

[TonyHetherington]

May I also point you towards the particularly frustrating use of the phrase;

"off of"...as in Jennifer Anniston off of Friends.

Grumble grumble.

[anonymous-user]

hugo a gogo said:

shirley you could've worked it out?

it's people mishearing 'could've'

You can see why people get it wrong all the time.

I expect in the future it will become accepted usage as the language 'evolves'. Unless we go the French way and have some kind of organisation made up of grammar bots to protect it.

[james_tigerwoods]

Ambulance was language ignorance on my part but "could of" is poor grammar.

Or is the continuous use and subsequent PH correction that I see wrong?

[sadako]

el stovey said:

hugo a gogo said:

shirley you could've worked it out?

it's people mishearing 'could've'

You can see why people get it wrong all the time.

I expect in the future it will become accepted usage as the language 'evolves'. Unless we go the French way and have some kind of organisation made up of grammar bots to protect it.

Yeah and look where it got them. Despite official documents being written in official french the locals are now using french with a hodgepodge of words from other languages including English. Words like "Computer" and "Weekend" are in common public use for example despite officially sanctioned equivalents being available.

If you try to enforce a language that way the language just goes stale.

[BoRED S2upid]

Papa_Hotel said:

Probably the same morons that can't spell ambulance. Amiright?

No your very wrong.

We can spell Ambulance. In two different languages. We're clever like that.

[Devilstreak]

TonyHetherington said:

May I also point you towards the particularly frustrating use of the phrase;

"off of"...as in Jennifer Anniston off of Friends.

Grumble grumble.

I'm aware that I got pulled up the other day for "could of", But you can blame Scott Mills "off of" radio 1 for the "off of" phrase.

[james_tigerwoods]

BoRED S2upid said:

Papa_Hotel said:

Probably the same morons that can't spell ambulance. Amiright?

No your very wrong.

We can spell Ambulance. In two different languages. We're clever like that.

As above, ambulance is also available in many other languages with other spellings too...

[toasty]

Maybe it's like those people who spell 'definitely' as 'definately'.

Apparently it's a subtle way of indicating that they are up for toilet trading.

Either that or they're making a rather unfortunate typo.

[anonymous-user]

BoRED S2upid said:

Papa_Hotel said:

Probably the same morons that can't spell ambulance. Amiright?

No your very wrong.

We can spell Ambulance. In two different languages. We're clever like that.

[ShadownINja]

james_tigerwoods said:

Where has the oft used phrase "could of" come from - it's could have FFS!

Not a rant, per se as I'm on my way out of the office but I'm sick of seeing it

No, my own grammar isn't perfect, I know!

It's the Welsh version of "could have", of course...

[XMES RUS]

Tim Westwood the muva of the street thesaurus.

[Evangelion]

BoRED S2upid said:

No your very wrong.

That should be 'No, you're very wrong.'

Innit?

[elster]

hugo a gogo said:

shirley you could've worked it out?

it's people mishearing 'could've'

Well that wasn't hard to come to the conclusion.

The first post.

[james_tigerwoods]

elster said:

hugo a gogo said:

shirley you could've worked it out?

it's people mishearing 'could've'

Well that wasn't hard to come to the conclusion.

The first post.

Does that excuse poor written grammar then?

[Eric Mc]

It's not an example of poor grammar.

It's an example of poor knowledge of the correct word or form of words to actually use which in turn stems from a poor English education and poor literacy skills.

[escargot]

TonyHetherington said:

May I also point you towards the particularly frustrating use of the phrase;

"off of"...as in Jennifer Anniston off of Friends.

Grumble grumble.

Off of is a phrase you'll never hear me say where Jennifer Anniston is concerned.

EG, Jennifer, get off of my face. Jennifer get off of my co.... etc.