Does it drive you nuts when people write, "Could of," like, "I could of gone to the store"?

The J. Geils Band misspelled the title of their song “Must Of Got Lost” instead of “Must Have Got Lost” on the album track listing. It angers me a lot.

No. I don’t care.

“This is one of those errors typically made by a person more familiar with the spoken than the written form of English. A sentence like “I would have gone if anyone had given me free tickets” is normally spoken in a slurred way so that the two words “would have” are not distinctly separated, but blended together into what is properly rendered “would’ve.” Seeing that “V” tips you off right away that “would’ve” is a contraction of “would have.” But many people hear “would of” and that’s how they write it. Wrong. Note that “must of” is similarly an error for “must have.” http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/couldof.html

I could of sworn I’ve seen this question before…

A lot of things that started out like this ended up becoming accepted as proper English because they were so widespread. So maybe in the future it will be ok to say “could of.”

Yes, I hate it. I also hate the use of the helping verb “hafta” as in “First you hafta take a test tube…” It was a big no-no for my students to write their lab reports in language like this.

But then, many people think I am weird.

I’m in the It drives me nuts club.

Well, I could of been one a those people, but my mother learned me how to talk real good.;-)
Seriously, though, yes, it does bother me. (So does use of ‘I’ when it should be ‘me’.)

It drives me crazy when people get caught up in the systematic of words…if you know what they are trying to convene what difference does it make how they say. Unless of course they are writing professionally. English is one of the hardest languages to learn because of contractions and our over use of pronouns but to lose an important message because it wasn’t written correctly seems silly to me.

Just like many other ‘objectional’ words in the English language, it has become more commonly accepted. That is why language is called ‘living’.

Drive me nuts? Nah.

It is noticeable, though. Just doesn’t bother me.

My english is already too screwed up from being multilingual. People that get annoyed with strange sentence structure confuse me lol

yes it does, and what about ” I seen or we seen” the dog?

It’s annoying, but there are much worse plagues. Such as using “be” instead of “am” in the progressive.

@lefteh

Don’t be hatin’ on my verse.

@Question

Yes, it bothers me because it’s simply of matter of mishearing something. People simply speak “have” so quickly that it sounds like “of”. It has nothing to do with grammar; it’s just a misunderstanding, which could easily be avoided. “Of” is not a widely used substitute for “have”. It is not yet an accepted linguistic change. Maybe it will be someday, but for now, most people know the difference between “have” and “of” and use them at the appropriate times.

Is there nothing better you could of thought of to get annoyed at? Grammar will never annoy me. I have much better things to worry about.

Yes. =(

isn’t it kind of fun tho to have a little rant about a little pet peeve?

It bothers me alot!
Teehee! ;P

It’s up there with “I won you”! No you didn’t I wasn’t the prize “You beat me”!

Nope, @Mat74UK you borrowed me that prize!

@SpatzieLover No I didn’t. I lent you it! lol

@Mat74UK I could of sweared that you loant it to me.~

@SpatzieLover You worded that really good!

Yes. Yes it does. I wish it didn’t because it makes me feel snobbish, but it really irritates me.

@Ivan LOL!
@DominicX When I SAY “Could’ve,” it sounds like, “could of.” It’s not the prononciation that bothers me—it’s when I see it in writing, and I see it all the time.
@augustlan I don’t feel snobbish as much as frustrated and sad. I’m a teacher, and to me, that’s a failing of our education system. HOW can a kid go through 12 years of school and still not know any better? I was helping my husband’s daughter with a college paper last year. She’d turned it in for an initial look, by an AIDE, I hope. I hope it wasn’t the teacher, because whom ever it was had “corrected” Gena’s correct “could’ve” to “could of.” This is at the freaking college level! I about went through the roof!
@spazie Sigh. It’s, “I could of swernt I leaned it to you.” Sheesh!
@Haleth Do you have an example for me? I know words change, and evolve, especially in pronunciation by country and region, but this is flat out a screw up.

Isn’t it sad? Yes. Yes, it bothers me. “Of” is a preposition; “have” is a verb.

GET IT RIGHT!

@aprilsimnel Well, I kin rite, but I don’t no my propsitions and dangling particpeles n stuff.
YES! GET IT RIGHT EVEN IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHY!!