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To: Madeleine Harrison who wrote (1672)	1/12/1999 7:03:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

Madly: Or worse.. "would of" for "would have." Yes, that's even worse, now that I think of it. "Fingernail on the blackboard" awful. But the construction is ubiquitous, I'm afraid. I hear politicians and TV personalities use "If I would have..." all the time. Speaking of politicians, Senator John Kerry recently described the Clinton scandal in something like these words: "Well, you know, William Faulkner said that it was full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." When Mr. Faulkner titled his book "The Sound and The Fury", I'm sure he never thought he would be thought of as the author of Macbeth. I wrote Mr. Kerry to point this out to him, but he didn't reply. Best, Jack