alt Hacker NewsNot too long from now, Yale will likely also give the "would of" construction its blessing.
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vehemenz • last Monday at 1:52 PM
This looks like a false equivalence. Why are we comparing a commonly-accepted usage, hundreds of years old, to what amounts to a spelling error?
This article is not “blessing” anything, it’s trying to understand it. And I promise you that linguists have indeed given thought to why and under what circumstances people write “would of” instead of “would have”.