>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used 
>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm 
>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>
> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell can 
> you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF

Because "have" is often shortened, especially in speech but even in writing 
"i could've gone home".  To the ear it sounds like "of" instead of "have". 
So it's not surprising it gets written this way sometimes.

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