Linguistics
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Ok but "melty" isn't a real word and I'll die on this hill
even if it's a real word I hate it
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I don't care about melty, but "would of" will never be right no matter how many times people say it.
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People don't say "Would of", they just miswrite "would've"
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People sure do say would of. They even separate the words enough to make it clear, like you or I would separate would and have when we don't want to abbreviate
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Would've
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Something expensive is spendy. Something that melts is melty. What's the trub, bub?
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It doesn't need to melt. Many cars look melty
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Something expensive is spendy.
My dictionary doesn't think so, heh. Webster seems to say "chiefly Northwestern US" so that may explain it. I remember rolling my eyes and thinking that it sounded like something a self-important jackass would say. (edit: the first time I heard it, I mean).
I don't think I'd ever use it, but I also don't see it as weird or wrong anymore. Melty is fine. Slippy still grates on me a bit, but I can let it slide.
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Neither is "ask" as a noun. You don't have asks, you have requests.
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