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The written form is derived from the spoken form and not the other way around. This is easy for highly literate people in writing-focused societies to forget, a
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
The written form is derived from the spoken form and not the other way around. This is easy for highly literate people in writing-focused societies to forget, and our education tends to not explicitly address it.
But there it is. To/too, their/they're, it's/its, should of/should've etc are all transcription errors, not a failure to understand or deploy standard grammar.