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Re: CHAT: which's

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 4, 2003, 5:26
 --- 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 http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Exchange IMs with Messenger friends on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile phone.