The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93672   Message #1805809
Posted By: Helen
09-Aug-06 - 09:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Eggcorns
Subject: RE: BS: Eggcorns
Softwear - on a sign on the door of the computer roomsa at a post-school vocational college where I was teaching.

Could of, should of - how many times have I seen that written in student assignments, to reflect the way people here in Oz often say "could have", "should have" etc? (This one really makes me aware of the decline in reading.)

An answer to one of the trivia questions I run every week -
Q: What is the name of monsters with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail, wings, and talons of a bird
A: herpes

Helen