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Re: "'d"
Posted By: Howard, on host 205.184.139.52
Date: Sunday, June 6, 1999, at 08:19:47
In Reply To: Re: "'d" posted by Tyler on Sunday, June 6, 1999, at 05:20:12:

> > Does anyone out there care about this:
> >
> > You would write "you'd" short for "you would" or "he'd" for "he had". But should anyone write "Sue'd" for "Sue had"? Or worse "The house'd..."?
> >
>
> I would only use them (except the house one, which is bizarre) if I were writing something involving dialogue, and that was the way the character's talked.

I worry about the contraction for "how would."
I guess it's "how'd." In areas where people lose their "R's," they pronounce my name like that.
How'd