Timeline for Is it "Don't let's" or "Let's don't"?
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| Jul 1, 2023 at 18:37 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Benjamin Harman 'All I can do at this point is apologize for the mistake and thank you for your answer'.... Not so. See the comment above. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 10:39 | comment | added | user71740 | @Benjamin I don't know if you're aware of this, but you can untick the other answer and select this one, or another one. | |
| Mar 30, 2019 at 2:48 | comment | added | Benjamin Harman | @Araucaria -- I must've been on crack when I selected the answer. For the life of me, I can't reason how I didn't pick this one. I thought maybe it had been edited, but I looked at the edit history and this answer was all there when I selected. All I can do at this point is apologize for the mistake and thank you for your answer. | |
| Feb 27, 2016 at 12:26 | history | edited | Araucaria - Him | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:45 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I would add that in your answer, because it's exactly what I suspected (the apostrophe is meaningless) but I didn't know how to express it so elegantly as you did. | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 21:42 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @Mari-LouA Sorry, the system didn't ping me so I didn't see your comment. I think if you asked them they'd probably say it was - but just because that's what they've been taught. But in reality that's just one word for such speaker's. The apostrophe is nothing more than a historical hangover, a bit like a human appendix or a whale's hip bone. | |
| Jan 22, 2016 at 19:15 | comment | added | Tim Ward | @Mari-LouA, yes, indeed, it's still the contraction of "let us". English can be weird. :) | |
| Jan 22, 2016 at 18:56 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I have a curiosity, what is the function of the apostrophe in Let's you me and Bob go and see the manager together. Do speakers of Dialect B consider let's to be a contraction of let us? | |
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| Jan 12, 2016 at 15:44 | history | answered | Araucaria - Him | CC BY-SA 3.0 |