5 1414 native speaker intuitions monday 5 dec 94 jules levin responded following tony bex raises interesting questions posting native speaker intuitions however least two possible explanations could spellings plausibly might offered naive literate native speakers british american english 1 segment may pure homophone verb preposition without link pronunciation think people would hesitate example claim might said b queen hearts use string pronounced way 2 could might kind preposition rather verb along lines wake baby either might native speaker understanding would interesting know anyone ever queried asking native speakers english fashion levin commented believe considered verb replaces orthoepic auxiliary abduction erroneous hypercorrection construct forms woulda coulda etc collecting samples latter standard prose e newspapers magazine articles 20 years intending write construct future english since may telos form steadily rising acceptibility appeared even wm buckley column even latter would insist ironic problem constructs become widespread ordinary letterwriters newspaper trying upgrade prose style longer analyzable coulda shoulda etc knowing latter somehow strictly kosher expand reanalyze false construction stood bed therefore submit nothing structurally like b debt real linguistic question status constructs visa vis original compound aux structures instead engaging typical amateurish asking native speakers think devise long sheet sample sentences constructions mixed constructions see native speakers nonrandomly pick apart well yes rather misses point native speaker many british speakers rarely never use coulda construction could hardly therefore building kind expansion suggested surely native speakers similarly levin proposal would include speakers literate tony bex