Re: CHAT: which's

Emaelivpaer Muke Tever:
>But I think the restraint against /Ss/ prevents "which is" from ever
>contracting at all.
T'emaelivpar John Cowan:
>"Which's" is never acceptable in standard English. [snip examples]
>But the right thing for non-native speakers is simply never to use it.
Personally, I'm a contraction-happy sort of person, especially online.  If
I'm not careful, I'd've had "'cause 'cept 'specially" in my postings here,
which's a bit of an overkill.  ;)

I think it just depends on context.  If you look at my log files of IM
chats, there are contractions everywhere.  The more grammatically "proper"
I'm trying to be -- such as when writing less-spoken-English-like e-mails
-- I'll try to weed out some of the less standard contractions.

"Which's" would count as very informal in my book, but still acceptable.


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