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From: "Chris Westmoreland" <>
Subject: RE: Need Birth/Death reference 1940's - JACKSON
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:06:07 -0700
In-Reply-To: <U6ydneEkvMlFbXnfRVn-jA@rcn.net>


> From: singhals [mailto:]
> Sent: 25 July 2005 07:02
> To:
> Subject: Re: Need Birth/Death reference 1940's - JACKSON
>
> Roy Stockdill wrote:
>
> > creeping into it, am I the only one who deplores the increasingly
> > widespread use of the word "of" in totally the wrong context???
> >
> > The phrase "should of been" makes me cringe! The correct usage is
> > "should HAVE been".
>
> Out of the mildest of curiosity, Roy, how WOULD one pronounce
> "should've" so that it does not sound-like "should of"? [Stipulating in
> advance that "should've" is irregular usage.]
>

It's pronounced using the soft neutral vowel sound known as schwa. For most
people, this is likely to be the vowel sound that they use most often when
speaking naturally. Phonetically, it's represented by an inverted low-case
e.



Kushti Bok,

Chris Westmoreland


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