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Early modern English contractions and their relevance to present-day English
English contractions have their own history
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2011
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Are contractions like don't and it's typical of ‘modern’ English? To what extent were they present in early modern English? This paper endeavours to answer these questions. However, it also sets out to answer another one: early modern English had a set of contractions of its own, and the question is why they disappeared and whether they are still in any way relevant to contemporary English.
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