Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Are you getting these phrases wrong too? | EGGCORNS" video.
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Yea, that one bothers me, too. I'm fairly certain that one comes from mishearing the contractions "would've", "could've", "should've"; contraction of "- have". That bothers me so much that I want to resolve never to use those contractions, but at my age I know my limitations. Actually, when speaking informal Midwestern among friends, I am more likely to say "would'a' ", etc. Probably a moot point at my age. I write a lot more than I talk, and I always write "would have", "could have", "should have"; and that's what I'm THINKING when I speak the contractions.
It seems I read a lot more of that, and things like there/their/they're, to/two/too and the like. I think it is two things: One, educational decline in the US, and another texting causing young folk to think of writing as a less formal and more colloquial medium than we oldtimers used to thing of it as (speaking for myself, rather than present company, of course).
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