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It's not pronounced "of", it's more like "ev", exactly like the contraction of words it's made up of. Would have.
by overcast 7y ago
It's not pronounced "of", it's more like "ev", exactly like the contraction of words it's made up of. Would have.
- chefandy 7y agoəv
- geocrasher 7y agoIn my household I'm the English nerd, although I have no degree behind it. I'd correct my wife when she wrote "would of" but then I listened closer when she talked: She wasn't saying "would've" she was saying "would of". That's when I gave up. There are a million other reasons to love my wife, and her proper use of 'would've' wasn't one of them to begin with :)
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- mikeryan 7y agoDoes your wife actually pronounce these differently? Small sample size but as far as I can tell I pronounce these identically. (CA - native speaker)
- geocrasher 7y agoShe does not. They are the same to her. We're also native speakers from the Reno NV area, which is heavily influenced by Sacramento and San Francisco language.
- Buge 7y agoTo me "would of" and "would've" are pronounced exactly the same. If I said "would ev" that would sound weird. It would sound very similar to "whatev": https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whatev https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whatev
- UnFleshedOne 7y agoWell, nothing else in english is pronounced like it is written, so I don't think this is a good reason to misspell things.