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Has the contraction “you’re” finally been replaced by “your”?
Your is almost universally used these days for you’re (“you are”). Is the misuse of your a result of ignorance, or is the contraction now formally dead?
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Should a contraction taken from the center of a word have two apostrophes? [closed]
I'm currently reading Entrepreneur Magazine, and there is a story profiling a 13-year-old who created a series of stickers to embellish Lego blocks. The subtitle of the story reads
A pint-size ...
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Apostrophes in contractions: shan't, sha'n't or sha'nt?
I came across the word sha'n't when reading Winnie the Pooh the other day and it cast me into a Thoughtful Mood concerning the Appropriate Spelling of this word.
This word is a contraction of "shall ...
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Why/When need some kind of short spelling or pronunciation?
In regular usage, nowadays we use short spellings of words in speaking or writing.
For example:
They are in the cinema. => They're in the cinema.
We have been waiting for me. => We've been waiting ...
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