Anonymous OP 23h

Neither of them is more correct than the other, it just depends on which dialect of English you were raised using!

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Anonymous #1 23h

Oh shit, I didn’t realize it was a dialectical thing

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Anonymous OP 23h

Makes sense in retrospect

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Anonymous OP 23h

It's all good! I don't know if it's common knowledge, to be honest, I only know due to being an English major and we talk about dialects of English sometimes.

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Anonymous #1 23h

Wrong. The contraction of have is the correct one.

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Anonymous #2 23h

I love how you saw a literal English major say something about what they’ve been studying and instead of saying “that doesn’t make sense to me, could you explain how that’s correct?”, you just said “wrong” /s

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Anonymous OP 23h

As an english major #2 is right 💀 there is no dialect where could of etc is correct regardless of how commonly its used. A linguistics major would know better abt that than any english major though so if a linguistics major would like to correct me by all means

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Anonymous #3 23h

Way more willing to listen to another English major say “wrong” than some rando lol, but yeah I’d also love to hear from a linguistics major if any happen to see this

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Anonymous #3 22h

Could of wouldn't really be used in academic English because this is because academic English has a very specific set of rules for how to write and tends to follow traditions of grammar. In Southern dialects, could of/would of is really common. I'm from the South and heard it very often, and also, you are right that a linguistics major would be more knowledgable on this but I still wanted to chime with what I learned when studying dialects of English

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Anonymous OP 22h

Agreed! If anyone here is a linguistics major, we'd all love to hear what you think

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Anonymous #2 22h

You're right have is definitely what is considered "correct" in academic/professional English because that style of English has very specific rules on what is grammatical. In daily use though, it's very common for people to stray from academic English though. E.g. a lot of people say "who" instead of "whom" even if "whom" is the correct term academically/professionally no matter what part of an English speaking country you're from and very few care

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Anonymous #1 22h

Dialectally yes it is whats used in the south (Im from georgia! Grew up saying it myself) but whats used doesnt mean whats correct, grammatically it is incorrect. 'academic' english is a writing style/dialect of its own thats typically characterized by correct grammar but not directly correlated to whats right or not, like your example of who vs whom, who is still grammatically correct in most cases but whom is academic

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Anonymous #3 22h

You make a really good point, I do agree with you on that!

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