Re: x > f sound change

on 13/09/01 18:01, Michael Poxon (m.poxon@VIRGIN.NET) wrote:

> Dear BPJ
>
> Something I've noticed very much recently, certainly in British English; not
> just sound change, but syntactic change too. The ending /schwa+v/ found in
> "could've", "should've" etc., is being interpreted as "of" instead of a
> contraction of "have", and the emphatic response articulated as "You should
> of!" instead of "You should have" and so on. My kids (13 and 16) consider
> this perfect grammatical.
>
> Mike Poxon
It happens on this side of the pond too. I remember people having trouble
with that in elementary school. It makes sense to me: the 've is pronounced
more like of than have...

andy.

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