Just watched an advert for yes car credit and I have a question for all the intelligentsia heree. The two little girls in the back seat of the car sau "we would say yes" to a question asked by the blond girl, but thay don't say "we would" but a contraction of the two words "we would" .
How do you spell that contraction?
I can't figure it out.
-- Your help is, as always, greatfully receved. Rory Manton
Rory Manton vaguely muttered something like ...
we'd
as in you'd - you would, he'd, he would etc etc
In news: snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, Paul - xxx blithered:
Unfortunately that contraction is indistinguishable from that for we had!
in article snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, Paul - xxx at snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com wrote on 11/10/04 13:20:
Thanks for that. I just cant spell to save my liff.
GbH vaguely muttered something like ...
I wasn't aware that 'we had' could be contracted ... but assuming it can and you're right, then as it wouldn't normally be used singularly and out of context in a normal sentence, it isn't really a problem.
So Paul - xxx was, like
Course it can! _We would_ have been wet if _we had_ been outside in the rain = We'd have been wet if we'd been outside in the rain.
Lots of words sound the same - bear (animal), bear (carry), bare (unclothed) - the context usually makes the meaning clear. This naked animal is injured - can you bear the bare bear to hospital?
Or something. I'll get me trapper's hat...
Richard Brookman vaguely muttered something like ...
Heh, obvious when you think ... which I patently didn't .. ;)
Which is what I said in the bit you snipped ... context makes the meaning clear .. ;)
And I'll get me jerkin ...
So Paul - xxx was, like
Fnarrr. Gherkins.
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