And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:41:41 -0000, Bill Pragnell  
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>>> "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

Dialects - "I could have done it" being pronounced as "I cud uv done it"  
with a small hop to "I cud ov done it" and then well you can see what  
happens. It's literally very easy to do :-P

> *nods sadly* Yup, all too common. Misused apostrophes get my goat too.  
> I'd be willing to forgive non-native speakers, but they usually get it  
> right more often than the natives...

There taut too right proply.

> <rant>
> The plural of CD is CDs !!!
> </rant>

My CDs broken

-- 
Phil Cook

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