Posted by Toby Inkster on 04/10/06 21:15

Martin Clark wrote:

> In contractions, the apostrophe is used in place of the missing letters

This is only a fairly loose rule. Many contractions are simply spelt
particular ways by tradition. e.g.

ca(n) n(o)t should be "ca'n't", but is "can't"
w(ill) n(o)t; w'n't; won't
sha(ll) n(o)t; sha'n't; shan't

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