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.
I should have written that I was talking about colloquial Irish English.
Sorry 'bout that.

K.

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