>>>>>>>>>>I don't know when it changed, but it did. I simply can't remember when anything started on Tuesday, or on any other day of the week.
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>>>>>>>>>>Didn't anyone else notice?
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>>>>>>>>>Pretty sure Tuesday starts on Tuesday. Right at the beginning.
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>>>>>>>>Nope, it's "Tuesday starts Tuesday". Learn newspeak.
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>>>>>>>Remember that English is a dynamic language – always changing. The vernacular tends to influence our language. What is acceptable today could well change tomorrow. If enough people use a different form of speech then the chances are that those changes will become common. :)
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>>>>>>I should off guessed :)
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>>>>>Should of. Please!
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>>>>Hmmm, I'll give that an amused benefit of the doubt, young man!
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>>>I find it a bit disconcerting; the number of times I see people (and not ESL types either) typing 'should of'. This is what happens when people don't read, and only get their 'knowledge' of language by listening to their lazy speaking friends.
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>>It was that very expression that engendered my interest in eng. lang. way back in Infants school. I wrote "... could of ..." in a piece and the teacher marked it wrong. I analysed it and appreciated there and then that "of" meant "belonging to" and was not a "doing word" (didn't know my parts of speech then). My cousin in Toronto has used "of" like that in her corres. with me. I've pointed out her error twice (she was working in a PA-type roll and I thought it might be embarrassing for her to put it in a formal company letter). You know what - she STILL uses it! People don't listen - like the old "loose" for "lose" error.
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>The top of the list of ironic situations is seeing some fool, in print, on the internet for the whole world to see, call somebody else a 'looser'. Cracks me up every time.

Like suggesting they practise archery? :-)

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>>Talking of listening to lazy friends, it surprises me that more Americans don't write "I cou'int do it", "I wou'int", "I di'int" :-)
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>And the one of which we are probably all guilty; the ever popular 'Wensday'.

We all tend to pronounce the "d" here. After all we're all aware it's named after our old Saxon chief god, Woden :-)