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Originally Posted by Mixie
In this thread I saw a few words that were foreign of origin, and thus easily mispronounced. Being all to familiar with this, I also come across the other side of it - Dutch people horribly mispronouncing English words. I have to bite off my tongue to prevent myself from saying something about it, because I don't want to look like a wise-ass. But it's sooo hard.. *whine*
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Greetings from southern California and welcome to the Cellar, Mixie.
Do you have any entertaining examples of this?
Oddly enough, I don't really get angry about "could of" mis-writings -- a native-speaker sort of grammatical mistake brought on by not understanding the source of the "could've" contraction, which is inevitably going to sound like "could of," but which is readily set straight in elementary school English class.
This does not necessarily help the clods who spend that class asleep.