Why YSK?

The first person who typed “should of” probably heard of it in real life that was meant to be “should’ve”, they typed “should of” online and readers thought that it’s grammatically correct to say “should of” which is in fact wrong and it became widespread throughout the years on Reddit.

I hope something could start to change.

  • Art35ian
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    632 years ago

    Nice one. Who’d’ve guessed.

    • @quantumantics
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      292 years ago

      I wouldn’t’ve, that’s for sure!

    • @denemdenem
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      2 years ago

      😱 You are triggering my fear of more than 1 apostrophes in a word

    • @TheCheddarCheese
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      52 years ago

      now im wondering if this is actually gramatically correct or not

    • @taj
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      42 years ago

      Coulda, shoulda, woulda…

    • @Bishma
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      32 years ago

      It was the Victorians that decided double contractions and double negatives should be no-nos. Some nonsense about making language have rules like mathematics. Don’t listen to Victorians.

    • jaydev
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      22 years ago

      Y’all’d’ve guessed.

      (Reddit has previously informed me that y’all’d’ve is the winner in these complex contractions.)