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Double contractions

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:19 pm
by Matt Morrison

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:27 pm
by Jon O'Neill
You couldn't've butchered the poll options any more.

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 1:10 pm
by Ian Volante
This may be the post of a daft 'a'pe'th.

Ah, I see my assumption of how my accent works doesn't match with the standard view.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ha%27p%27orth

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:05 pm
by Marc Meakin
Isnt that just Braxton Hicks?

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:55 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Marc Meakin wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:05 pm Isnt that just Braxton Hicks?
I had to Google that but I didn't use a potato so I got it done on the same day.

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:38 pm
by Matt Morrison
Anyway this came from me writing we'll've without thinking too much about it, then reading it and going "hang on, that's got two apostrophes in it, that can't be right" and then googling it and turning out that seemingly it is absolutely alright? Most confusing, but I'm going to start looking for opportunities to use them more often I think.

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:38 pm
by Gavin Chipper
I'd'ven't thought you'd ever be able to get three though.

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:51 pm
by Sam Cappleman-Lynes
Gavin Chipper wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:38 pm I'd'ven't thought you'd ever be able to get three though.
*I'd'nt've

Can't believe you managed to mess that up.

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:35 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:51 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:38 pm I'd'ven't thought you'd ever be able to get three though.
*I'd'nt've

Can't believe you managed to mess that up.
*I'dn't've.

You messed it up too. Maybe as some subtle joke. I dunno.

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:53 pm
by Sam Cappleman-Lynes
I ca'nt imagine what your'e talking about

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:55 pm
by Adam Dexter
I wouldn't've thought there was much of an issue with them. It's just substitution of unnecessary letters with apostrophes. Y'all'd've had qualms with a triple.

Came across this which is quite amusing http://www.apostrophecatastrophes.com/2 ... rophe.html

Re: Double contractions

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:57 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Adam Dexter wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:55 pm I wouldn't've thought there was much of an issue with them. It's just substitution of unnecessary letters with apostrophes. Y'all'd've had qualms with a triple.

Came across this which is quite amusing http://www.apostrophecatastrophes.com/2 ... rophe.html
Did you mean "y'all'd've'd qualms"...