>>> "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.

Thanks. But knowing the reasons/excuses doesn't make me stop wanting to 
shoot them.

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