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TATY Originally Posted by
DDT I have come across a number of English teachers lately and it seems that they are all to be considered "grammar nazis". They never accept the normal spoken form of English and try to pound out of me all my "mistakes". Like the rule about not putting "would" after "if". I know so many native speakers who talk this way but it extremely frowned on to teach that in a class.
eg: If I woulda' (have) known you were such a jerk, I would have kicked your ass yesterday.
Apparently I am not allowed to teach that to anyone. Hmmmm...oh well!
There's not
an apostrophe in "woulda". :P
Little known rule: using apostrophes to mark dropped sounds in reported colloquial speech. E.g. the ol' gray mare, I ain' gon' do it, come back again, sug' (short for sugar) etc.