Timeline for Contraction for 'are' with nouns
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| Sep 14, 2010 at 15:53 | comment | added | kitukwfyer | As for the "sometimes encountered," I'll throw out that I use "'re" instead of "are" on a lot of things. So do most of the people I know. I think it's just because of the general tendency for syllables without emphasis to get lost in quick speech. It would sound pretty weird to me if someone clearly enunciated the "are" in either of those sentences....Not to mention a lot of others... | |
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