Why clerical errors would of occurred

[At home in NZ]

An all too common mistake, especially in spoken English. The short version of would have is would've not would of.

 

[peter]

An all too common mistake, especially in spoken English. The short version of would have is would've not would of.

It certainly is. You wouldn't believe how people wrote in about it - they clearly hadn't read the article!

 

[At home in NZ]

It certainly is. You wouldn't believe how people wrote in about it - they clearly hadn't read the article!

Guilty as charged, I couldn't get past one of my pet hates, I've read it now though.

 

[canadianbeth]

It jumped out at me as soon as I saw the e-mail, but I did take the time to read the article. Unfortunately, I see it a lot on Facebook.

 

[At home in NZ]

It jumped out at me as soon as I saw the e-mail, but I did take the time to read the article. Unfortunately, I see it a lot on Facebook.

Unfortunately I hear it a lot and especially notice it on TV including programmes from the UK. Sad old me still watches Coronation Street and one particular character grates on me whenever he uses the incorrect pronunciation - should of.

 

[peter]

Coronation Street

Which Coronation was it named for, I wonder?

 

[Stuart]

A quick look for Coronation Street/Road/Square in Google Earth only finds ones built in the early 20th century. Obviously a build date in the first half of the nineteenth century is possible, but the latter half is unlikely. So I wonder it it was sneakily picked for the programme as a name you'd not find among the kind of housing being used as a setting.

 

[At home in NZ]

A quick look for Coronation Street/Road/Square in Google Earth only finds ones built in the early 20th century. Obviously a build date in the first half of the nineteenth century is possible, but the latter half is unlikely. So I wonder it it was sneakily picked for the programme as a name you'd not find among the kind of housing being used as a setting.

Originally the programme was going to be called Florizel Street but the story goes it was changed to Coronation Street because it sounded better.
However, there is a different story in this section of Corriepedia

 

[Bob Spiers]

An all too common mistake, especially in spoken English. The short version of would have is would've not would of.

It reminds I once picked my wife up for saying 'Should of' (it was long ago and I lived to tell the tale) only to be told ..."What you heard is not what I said and you are listening with your Brummie ear and not being able to distinguish my Northants dialect". She repeated it and again it sounded very much like either Should-ov so easily mistaken for Should-of. She asked me to say 'Should've' and said to her that came out as 'Should-uvv'. In the end we agreed we would try to avoid the short form which is not easy when it was something picked up from childhood and pronounced as heard.

Childhood interpretations are often adrift and the best example of this is the child who told his parents that God's name was Harold. Having heard the Lords Prayer recited with the line ...'and Allowed be his name'.

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[At home in NZ]

In the end we agreed we would try to avoid the short form which is not easy when it was something picked up from childhood and pronounced as heard.

Likewise would have and could have?

 

[Bob Spiers]

I am sure someone will point out to be that the Lords Prayer word mistaken as Harold, should have been spelled Hallowed and not Allowed. My wife has given me 50 lines for that error.