YSK it's either "should have" or "should've". "Should of" is incorrect

Why YSK?

The first person who typed "should of" probably heard of it in real life that was meant to be "should've", they typed "should of" online and readers thought that it's grammatically correct to say "should of" which is in fact wrong and it became widespread throughout the years on Reddit.

I hope something could start to change.

berkeleyblue ,
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I’m certainly no grammar freak and English also isn’t my native language but this deives me insane… Same with your vs you’re… it’s soooo easy…

Lemmyin ,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/523332b1-6e29-40e5-8c44-73dfee061d43.jpeg

Art3sian ,
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Nice one. Who’d’ve guessed.

denemdenem ,

😱
You are triggering my fear of more than 1 apostrophes in a word

quantumantics ,

I wouldn't've, that's for sure!

Anarch157a ,
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As a non-native speaker, that hurts !!!

hardypart ,

I'm not a grammar nazi, but "should of" is driving me up the wall.

ronaldtemp1 OP ,

I know right, I know people make careless grammatical mistakes all the time, including me, which is completely fine but people outright thought that "should of" is correct and use it all the time starts to get annoying

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