Should of etc.

[Geoff Nathan]

Apologies for beating a dead horse when it's down, but can anyone direct
me to a scholarly discussion of the replacement of auxiliary 'have' with
'of' in modal constructions like the one in the subject line?  It seems
a little tricky to do a search and I thought I'd be somewhat lazy and
just ask this fine group of folks.

Geoff

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