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Old 08-22-2010, 05:34 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by SameOldStory View Post
It's very common in most of the older books
Okay, that makes me think of Victorian fiction and earlier. Jane Austen was the first to come to mind. Yeah, the people in those books talk like that in the dialogue. But, I believe, actual people of that time in the affluent, educated, snooty class were expected to really talk that way. Contractions were for the commoners.

I googled "Jane Austen contractions" (without the quotation marks) and found a similar thread somewhere else in the top results:

http://www.verlakay.com/boards/index.php?topic=30934.0
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