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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I didn’t see this in the list of eggcorns while I was briefly browsing, but I see people write “could of” in the place of “could’ve” quite a bit. Googling it returns six million hits, the first of which are explaining not to use “could of,” but many after are just using it.
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