Language Pet Peeve

[Edwardo Piet]

'Should of' makes me want to strangle you. I've actually heard people spelling it this way, for chrissake.

I hate 'to', too.

That is my biggest language pet peeve of all! The "should of" crap.

To me it's clear that some people say or hear the contraction of "'ve" as "of" and then they start saying it and spelling it that way.

But I don't care the explanation it drives me insane.

In the original Xmen movie when Wolverine gets his energy drained by Rogue after waking up from a nightmare and stabbing her through the chest so she heals herself and drains his energy...

Wolverine says "It felt like she almost killed me."

Patrick Stewart as professor X says "If she'd held on any longer she could have."

I remember thinking at the time, all those years ago "If he'd have said "If she'd held on any longer she could of" I'd have walked out the cinema.

But of course... it's Patrick Stewart. Patrick Stewart doesn't make mistakes.