Re: Rivalry between Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi

[Colin Campbell]

GBMT,
When you write "would of" and "could of", you should be writing "would
have" and "could have". These two phrases are commonly written and
spoken as the contractions "would've" and "could've", which probably
explains how people get mixed up in writing them, because the "ve"
sounds like "of".

 

[Donald Munro]

Colin Campbell wrote:
> GBMT,
> When you write "would of" and "could of", you should be writing "would
> have" and "could have". These two phrases are commonly written and spoken
> as the contractions "would've" and "could've", which probably explains how
> people get mixed up in writing them, because the "ve" sounds like "of".

And 'alk' sounds like 'ock' if you're not Scottish.

 

[Howard Kveck]

In article <[email protected]>,
Colin Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:

> GBMT,
> When you write "would of" and "could of", you should be writing "would
> have" and "could have". These two phrases are commonly written and
> spoken as the contractions "would've" and "could've", which probably
> explains how people get mixed up in writing them, because the "ve"
> sounds like "of".

Sometimes that construction has come in handy:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.racing/msg/f9076e5f49584125

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Howard

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