Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.

Example:

In America, recently came across "back-petal", instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's very much not recommended, and generally seen as an error. But this article puts an asterisk on it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/whats-worse-than-coulda

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am viscerally against this concept.

    It's one thing to include the spelling as a way to capture the phonetics of an accent or a dialect, entirely another to accept its use in writing when using a neutral voice.

    If anything, because it's so often just a misspelling I would avoid trying to use it as a phonetics thing just as a matter of style. At this point everybody would think I'm making a mistake instead of trying to mimic a way of speech in a way they'd never do with "coulda".

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