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I wouldn't have called my speech slovenly, but I certainly pronounce the unstressed form of "have" after a modal verb and the unstressed form of "of" very similarly, and I suspect most people do. Try it yourself by saying these in ordinary speech, rather than with the artificially precise pronunciation my mother would call a telephone voice: I should have loved him more. and I dreamed of love. The "have" and "of" do sound very similar. If, however, you say You should have and What did you dream of?, the difference becomes more obvious.
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