Re: USAGE: would've verses would of

Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@Y...> ha scritto:

<< I'm just wondering. I'm talking to a (twenty-six-year-old) person
who has
been using 'would of' for 'would've' and 'would have' all his life,
including in English essays and the likes, and no-one'ad ever
commented on
it until the other day. >>

My acquaintance, the same one who mispronounces milk [mElk] and
because [bIkUz] pronounces would've/could've etc as [wUd@v] in
allegro speech and [wUd 'Ov] when stressing the word.

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