Category: Culture

Is it squashed or quashed? Oh, for a dollar every time somebody gets this wrong. From your everyday average-Joe, to news columnists and even a few fully-fledged journalists – who really should know better – time after time you’ll hear or read people getting this wrong.

Couldn’t Care Less or Could Care Less? When people use this expression, what they’re basically trying to say is that they really don’t care whatsoever about whatever it is that is being referred to. However, it’s actually pretty common to see this written incorrectly and many times even spoken incorrectly – even by people who should know much better.

“Could have” or “Could of”? “Can’t have” or “can’t of”? “Would have” or “would of” … and so on! Okay, so these are really common errors which many people make, both in writing and in speech – and it’s very simple to fix!