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"If I would’ve heard that before I would’ve named one of the cars Jalopnik" (from http://goo.gl/KvE2tB)
"Would have + P2" in main and dependent clauses seems odd to me. Is this correct?
I expected: "If I had heard that before I would’ve named one of the cars Jalopnik".
When talking about something hypothetical in the past, many English speakers use the conditional perfect (if I would have done) when they should be using the past perfect (if I had done).
The correct formulation, as you expected is:
If I had heard that before I would’ve named one of the cars Jalopnik.
