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Old 04-25-2013, 01:04 PM   #413
dawgfan
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Dola -

My current grammatical pet peeve (and I'm sure it's been covered in this thread) is folks using "of" where they mean a contraction of "have", i.e. "I should of consulted a dictionary".

It just astounds me that people make this mistake. I get the phonetic cause of it, but I have to wonder what is going through the heads of folks that write those mistakes - do they never stop to think "why would I actually say 'should of' - what does that actually mean?"

I've been seeing a lot of this one lately.
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