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What does "Who'd have thunk it?" mean?
Jan 8, 2012 6:41 PM
Answers · 2
This is very slangy. The proper form is "Who would have thought it?" but it deliberately follows a wrong pattern of grammar (think-thank-thunk, as in drink-drank-drunk). It's often said jokingly, perhaps to indicate that the speaker is so surprised by the news that all sense of grammar has been lost, or that the speaker imagines him/herself to be stupid enough to actually say "thunk". A case of woefully wrong grammar used for effect. The other form is "Who woulda thunk it?"
January 8, 2012
Who'd have thought it? Don't use thunk, it's slang.
January 8, 2012
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