I like to make it clear when discussing contractions that we are in the realm of the informal. When speaking or writing in the informal register, references to and rules concerning forms such as contractions, dialect, slang, and indefinite

I fail to see why it it should seem necessary to classify 'yoosta' and its relatives as a new word which has now grown up and left the comforts of the 'use' family home. Why, then, not 'gonna', or 'innit?' I'd

I well recall, after the publication of my first (and, so far, only) book, how many persons who knew me well and had read the book remarked to me how much my writing resembled my speech. But that is really not the point. If a person who is a liar,

Once again, it sounds too much like "you". AND, while well-intentioned, this (obviously needed) morpheme has had numerous suggestions throughout the past century. None have caught on, although I tend to prefer "sie" and