Is there some in-joke in the #discworld universe concerning "could of" and "should of" instead of "could have" and "should have"?

It's wrecking my head! This spelling is only ever used in reported speech.

#TerryPratchett #GuardsGuards #Litodon

In letzter Zeit muss ich sehr oft an dieses Zitat denken:

#TerryPratchett #Discworld #GuardsGuards #LordVetinari #CaptainVimes #CityWatch

Guess who scored a ticket to go see Guards Guards in the Kikker Theatre in Utrecht next month. You get only one, so you better make it count!

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My first attempt at reading every #Discworld novel in release order ended part-way through #GuardsGuards some... jeez, like 8 years ago.

Now my memory is pretty crap at the best of times, but I don't recall getting up to the part where they get the fancy new HQ way back then. So I'm now further along than I've ever been!

(I also [kinda] snuck #Hogfather in out of order, because we had the movie script version of it that made for good bedtime reading for our youngest. Still mostly counts!)

"Knowledge=energy=matter=mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

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Read #GuardsGuards, my first #Discworld novel.

#TerryPratchett makes me question my understanding of the English language, because boy, does he pull out words I had never heard before at times.
Sam Vines is a fantastic lead and I liked every character.

Heard about how good and relatively standalone #SmallGods is, too.
Yet: When I return to the series, I will do so with #MenAtArms. #books