Facts about word contractions? Where did such a thing come from? Who decided "cannot" can be "can't"?
Nobody knows who made the decision, but it is notable that many contractions once used are not used anymore. These include:
H’ere (Hi There)
Th’eat (That’s neat)
Se’sons (See Simpsons?)
Li’n’ation (License and Registration)
Wa’mr’ne (Want more wine?)
Why’bl’m’s (Why did you reblog my nudes?)
M’ven’tis’k (My venereal disease tests are back)
Spr’g’giddr’b’Sco’tr (Spielberg is a good director but Scorsese better understands the issues that effect modern cinema’s portrayals of crime and redemption)
H’dar’m’fr’c’ttal’tya’gn’be’vis‘slp’n’aa’vi’pl’s’rem’ish’d’sl (Hello darkness my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence in restless dreams I walked alone narrow streets of cobblestone beneath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light that split the night and touched the sound of silence and in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more people talking without speaking people hearing without listening people writing songs that voices never share and no one dared disturb the sound of silence fools said I you do not know silence like a cancer grows hear my words that I might teach you take my arms that I might reach you but my words like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells of silence and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made and the sign flashed out its warning in the words that it was forming and the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence)
Gordon Lightfoot
The Tragically Hip - "Gift Shop"
David Attenborough in 1974
God Speed by Edmund Blair Leighton
God Speed, which appeared at the RA in 1900, shows a young woman binding an embroidered sleeve on the arm of her knight as he departs, horsed, fully armed, and bearing a lance decorated with a pennant, for the tournament. Other knights have already passed beneath the portcullis and are entering the field of battle. The picture was the first of several painted by Blair Leighton in the 1900s in which a knight and his lady are seen in incidents illustrative of the code of chivalry; The Accolade followed in 1901, and The Dedication in 1908. The arms and armour which feature in all these pictures were no doubt in the artist's own collection, which is known to have included many examples.
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Amon Amarth
Gorgeous Gordon Lightfoot photos, chickens, cats, medieval stuff, metal, and folk rock
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