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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 ...
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 y'ever: have you ever y’know: you know yessir: yes sir you’d: you had / you would you’dn ...
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This is one of the most commonly used contractions in the English language. The uncontracted form is not unheard of, but is typically only used in very formal settings, such as a minister / priest saying "Let us pray". I'm going to put the paragraph back, as this is a rather glaring omission from a discussion of English contractions.
Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope , these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [ 1 ]
In French, the contractions of determiners are often the results of a vocalisation and a crasis: de le → du, de les → des; à le → au, à les → aux; en les → ès (archaic) In colloquial Québécois French, crasis extends to form further words. à + la → à; sur + la → s'a; sur + les → s'es; il + est → yé
Diagram of the changes in English vowels during the Great Vowel Shift. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between the 1400s and 1600s [1] (the transition period from Middle English to Early Modern English), beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English.
Misconception: Contractions are not appropriate in proper English. Writers such as Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, and others since Anglo-Saxon days have been "shrinking English". Some opinion makers in the 17th and 18th century eschewed contractions, but beginning in the 1920s, usage guides have mostly allowed them. [32]