CHAT: Contractions (was Re: Re: Austin, Utopia,

Nik Taylor scripsit:

> I think people like to avoid all those apostrophes, as in
> {won't}, not {wo'n't} or {shan't} not {sha'n't}
Lewis Carroll, however, used them in his little-known fantasies
_Sylvie and Bruno_ and _S & B Concluded_, quite consistently:
"ca'n't", "wo'n't", "sha'n't".  George Bernard Shaw went to the
other extreme:  "cant", "wont", "dont".

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