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  2. Wikipedia : List of English contractions

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    y’all’d’ve: you all would have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’dn't’ve: you all would not have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’re: you all are (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’ren’t: you all are not (colloquial/Southern American English) y’at: you at yes’m: yes madam / yes ma’am ...

  3. Contraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term ...

  4. Y'all - Wikipedia

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    Y'all (pronounced / j ɔː l / yawl [2]) is a contraction of you and all, sometimes combined as you-all. Y'all is the main second-person plural pronoun in Southern American English , with which it is most frequently associated, [ 3 ] though it also appears in some other English varieties, including African-American English , South African ...

  5. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...

  6. Talk:Y'all - Wikipedia

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    The reason it seems interesting is because in modern English 1) the second-person plural is the only plural pronoun with two forms (in some dialects) - "y'all" and "you"; and 2) the second person pronoun has the same form in nominative and accusative. The combination of 1) and 2) is why "Y'all have the craziest stuff happen to you" is acceptable.

  7. Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corp - Wikipedia

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    Only then is there a contract. If he does not repeat it, there is no contract. It is not until his message is received that the contract is complete. In all the instances I have taken so far, the man who sends the message of acceptance knows that it has not been received or he has reason to know it. So he must repeat it.

  8. Most-Favoured-Customer Clause - Wikipedia

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    A Most-Favoured-Customer Clause (MFC) is a contractual arrangement between vendor and customer that guarantees the customer the best price the vendor gives to anyone. The MFC prevents a company from treating different customers differently in negotiations.

  9. The customer is always right - Wikipedia

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    Ritz's le client n'a jamais tort was first recorded in 1908, and is sometimes cited as the origin of the term. [ 3 ] [ 9 ] Barry Pain used both terms in his 1917 Confessions of Alphonse , writing "The great success of a restaurant is built up on this principle— le patron n’a jamais tort —the customer is always in the right!".