# Couldn't of/couldn't have

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 15, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156 "2020-08-15T05:34:49Z")
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### Author: ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/254 "2020-08-21T21:50:35Z")

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The poster who made the error that led to this thread has done it again, despite his post here. It must be a hard habit to break when it sounds the same to your ears.

In this thread on breakfast for dinner, it slipped out again twice in his post #11:  
[Do you ever eat bacon and eggs for dinner?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612) .

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> the women in my family would of replied in kind except they’d of use da meat cleaver or the largest butcher knife they owned

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