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Thread: Contractions
- 09-Oct-2005, 02:14 #1Mr. Curious Guest
Contractions Could someone please tell me when contractions of words were first invented and used?
Thank you,
Mike Stewart
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- 09-Oct-2005, 02:15 #2
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Re: Contractions Interesting question!
I want to know too
- 09-Oct-2005, 04:10 #3
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Re: Contractions I'd say too long ago to ever find out accurately. All speech is subject to phonetic reduction and it's not simply the standard ones that you're taught in school.
they wanna/you hafta/she wansta/he's gonna/...
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