Re: CHAT: which's

 --- Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
> Keith Gaughan wrote:
> > I use "I'ven't" when I'm speaking, but I don't when writing. It's
> not an
> > uncommon usage colloquially.
>
> Perhaps not in Ireland, but around here it certainly is.  The
> negative
> of "I've" is "I haven't", no other possibility in my dialect.  I
> don't
> think I've ever heard "I'ven't" before.

Nor have I, although I have both 'I haven't' and 'I 'aven't' /ai"&v@n/
as possibilities. I'd never/rarely right the latter. I do trust that
Keith knows how he talks, though ;)

Tristan

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