"of" for "have" in "would have" constructions

[James Smith]

"would have" => "would've" => would of"

I'd call it poor comprehension.





--- Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM> wrote:

> I just spotted this substitution of "of" for "have"
> in a "would have"
> construction in a freshman comp. paper. This is
> probably a
> Linguistics 101-worthy question: what process is
> causing this
> subsitution/use of "of"? Faulty reanalysis? Is it an
> eggcorn?
>
> ---Amy West
>


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