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[JohnD]

Or in this country. I mean what's the name for that trough people have in their houses which they fill with hot water and get into to wash? South of a certain vaguely defined line the spelling does not become 'barth'.


It would seem so.

You think English spelling is supposed to be logical?

You make me lath.

 

[morqthana]

You think English spelling is supposed to be logical?

Not I.

That was one of blup's attempted justifications

People say could’ve which gets written as could of.

 

[blup]

You said there was a grammatical error, not a spelling error. The grammatical error would have been "Cardiff is the capitol" rather than "Cardiff has the capitol". Which would be consistent with your persistent attitude to homophonal contractions.

"Cardiff is" and "Cardiff has" could both "Cardiff's". Presumably if someone heard that it would be OK for them to write, for example, "Cardiff is a long history".

I didn't expect you to be trying to mislead us by claiming the existence of a grammatical error when there wasn't one.

Did you do that deliberately?

Have you considered that “could of” is as much a spelling error as a grammatical one?

 

[morqthana]

Only if you can show the person using "of" instead of "have" in every other situation.

Only if you can show them conjugating

• I of
• You of
• He/she/it .... err, dunno - you decide
• We of
• You of
• They of

Otherwise it's not a spelling error - it's using the wrong word out of ignorance.