Dear sirs,
May I respectfully request that a crisis team be formed, briefed and released into the field to seek and destroy the use of "of" in the place of "have".
It is with some alarm that I notice the youth of this fine establishement erring thus and as a consequence, putting themselves and their acquaintences in grave danger. To whit, as painful as these are to type, I must inform the Brave Defenders of actual documented instances ...
- "I should of worn my cordura"
- "We could of gone via Paekak but we went over the Akatarawas"
- "Then when .....
... I'm sorry ... I just can't continue ... could we please bring back Daniel Jones?
That is a matter I fear will never be resolved. Perhaps this instance is one of those where the respective proponents have tacitly agreed to let either version be acceptable?
For me, although I suspect that the apostrophe'd version is the correct one, I don't bother with it.
Note of interest....there is a business establishment here that utilises the province name in it's own name, but the original signwriter obviously did not use the apostrophe. At some point, this apparent error was made clear to the signie, who then 'fixed' it....by adding the apostrophe UPSIDE DOWN. It remains so to this day. Clearly no-one really cares.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
You leave the Gnomes alone.
It's Dwarves that want tossing.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
In support of my application for Brave Defender Fellowship, I have prepared some research on the broken link between puntuation and the spacebar on many computers.
It appears that the spacebar link is not present on new computers as the malady of not using spaces following punctuation appears to have afflicted the young. The young are usually the ones with the newest latest and greatest gaming rig computers and of course they are also products of the modern educashin system.
Respectfully submitted
The Grub
Apologist!! Make not excuses for the afflicted. A (good) workman blameth not his tools.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
I want to join too, but need to know first, just how anal do I have to be? I consider myself to be fairly up-tight, but not sure if I'd fit in.![]()
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