Is there an English verb for removing contractions from a body of text?
Like changing "I wasn't there" to "I was not there".
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2No, there isn't. Removing contractions is about as terse as one can get.– John LawlerCommented Aug 10, 2015 at 22:37
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3The opposite of contraction is expansion. But beware that removing all contractions in English will make you sound like a Martian.– Dan BronCommented Aug 10, 2015 at 22:37
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Opposite to words contraction, we may think to disjunction. But, I am not really sure that it will be understood in that sense.– GraffitoCommented Aug 10, 2015 at 23:00
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1I believe this is part of their plan -- once they remove all English contractions, they will conquer us with ease. I, for one, welcome our new Martian overlords. Do you not?– deadratCommented Aug 11, 2015 at 0:42
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"Expanding the contractions" sounds like the best fit to describe it.– Fabien SnauwaertCommented Nov 6, 2018 at 8:37
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By Googling "contraction antonym oxford" Oxford offered the following:
contraction: shorten (a word or phrase) by combination or elision. "these sources were called quasistellar objects, which was soon contracted to quasar"
synonyms: shorten, abbreviate, cut, reduce, abridge, truncate "the name ‘Jacquenard’ was soon contracted to ‘Jack’ in English"
antonyms: expand, lengthen
Search for "expand contraction" let to a number of grammar sites giving instructions for dictation; there was also a lead to
Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture:
By John Lavagnino p762 (p731 also) expand, expanded, expansion,
'later Crane texts expand contractions more than early Crane texts.'
I could find no word to describe the interpretation/ filling out of sigla which is a similar process, in which the whole page may be transliterated with sigla or in full.
