Using the wrong word

[metalblue]

Jail instead of gaol.

Should have instead of ought to have.

 

[Mrmcfc]

Their
There
They're

Loose/lose

 

[quiet_riot]

Should of.

Could of.

Would of.

It's fucking have you thick, illiterate, backwards, simple, uneducated, ignorant cunts!

(Sorry, really bothers me.)

I find nowadays that people actually SAY of instead of have, as well as writing it.

 

[Dubai Blue]

"I borrowed him a tenner"

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Should of.

Could of.

Would of.

It's fucking have you thick, illiterate, backwards, simple, uneducated, ignorant *****!

(Sorry, really bothers me.)

This of instead of have is the biggest wind up for us in the Grammar and Spelling Constabulary.

And you missed out retarded..

If you could HAVE put children in the corner of the classroom and not let them out until they got it right, or not given them any milk or let them go for dinner until they got it right, it would have sorted it!

 

[MCFCTrick]

'Got another thing coming' (it's think, as wrong as it sounds)

It comes from 'If you think ....(whatever) then you have got another think coming'

So many use 'thing' instead...does annoy me too. Even Judas Priest fucked it up and called their single 'You Got Another Thing Comin'

 

[yerwot?]

glad we didn't loose on sunday, for a time it looked like we could of

the grammar police seem proud of they're superior knowledge and indeed being a mind of information, although why, i can't imagine.

it seams to be an age thing or somethink

we should berry the hatchet, put our noses to the wheel and enjoy the moment, life is to short for petty picnicking

 

[Carver]

It's not always incorrect to use these forms though.

Please explain when it is correct, except for when you are quoting what somebody else said or wrote ad verbatim. (For example if they are the lyrics to a song).

I would, of course, explain it to you if you were unable to work it out for yourself.

Granted, the offending words in the sentence above are separated by a comma, but they are legitimately used consecutively.

Should 'of' be used instead of 'have'? I think in most cases, no.

Go on, I'll let you off UUBlue. I was trying to catch you out with the comma, I think that you rumbled me ;-)

 

[york away to this!]

People (usually radio One DJs) who say "the man off of the telly". Capital punishment is the only solution.

 

[Carstairs]

It winds me up when people say "muffin" when they mean "barm"