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.

  • @[email protected]
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    191 year ago

    Pretty sure it’s actually one of those mistakes that is made more often by native speakers than non-native speakers

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      It’s like theyre/theire/they’re - in my experience it’s mostly native speakers confusing them.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        [there]/[their]/they’re

        This is also a phonetic mistake. The same people also confuse “your”, “you’re”, and “yore”, because they’ve been repeating those words in a way that makes them sound the same when they do not.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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      71 year ago

      Yeah, I’ve seen have in textbooks way more than ’ve and it’s baked into my brain… This mistake only happens if you hear the word before seeing it written.