Seconding PCBite probes. They're weighted, the force comes from gravity not from flex/spring in the arm, which confuses a lot of people at first. But they work pretty well.
What two words are you contracting with "several've"?
Probably "several of"
Yeah- I started being "flexible" with contractions in casual online speech years ago as a joke, but now it's just sort of part of my "dialect". That and cursed multiple contractions; at least I'ven't'd any problems with accidentally using either of those in formal speech.
That's really funny. I personally can't abide by flexible contractions but the multiple contractions are definitely up my alley and I deploy them whenever I can.
It almost seems like an overreaction for correcting "should of".