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contractions

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:44 am
by Stephen
Are the following contractions acceptable?
this's = this is or has
where're = where are
there're = there are
Thank you very much for your reply.

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:08 pm
by Alan
All are to be found in transcriptions of dialogue, but are (unlike e.g. it's for it is) nonstandard for general use.