My mother'd be happy ( short form of 'would')

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angelene001

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Is it natural and correct to use short form of "would" with proper nouns?
Example:
John'd be happy.

Is the sentence in the title of this post correct?
 

Tdol

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In speech, we could use both of those, but they're less likely to be used in writing.
 
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