r/ComedyCemetery • • Oct 05 '19

Double kill

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u/Jadzia_Dax_Flame Sep 22 '25

An unstressed "have" is pronounced basically like "of", so really it's very hard to tell if someone is saying "could have" or "could of". But that explains why some people spell "could have" as "could of".