I'd've

[Jonathan Lighter]

I started using this written contraction in high school in the early to mid
'60s. Probably saw it in print somewhere.

JL



On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 8:06 AM +0000 8/3/09, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> >What's a "raw g-hit"?
>
> Google hits, the number reported by google in the upper right corner,
> without inspection for overlaps and repetitions.
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> >How does one evaluate it?  Is 137,000 raw g-hits a lot?
>
> It's significantly more than zero.  Hits on the first several pages
> all seem genuine, and distinct.  This indicates that the contraction
> is question is widely used, especially since each search is conducted
> on a separate variant.
>
> >
> >One of the lowest frequency words in the British National Corpus of
> >100M hits is "abided" with only 6 hits  according to
> >ftp://ftp.itri.bton.ac.uk/bnc/all.num.o5  How many raw g-hits does
> >"abided" get?
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> 435,000.  You can discover this on your own by clicking on
> "www.google.com" and putting in [abided], without the brackets.
>
> LH
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> >Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
> >see truespel.com
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> >>  Poster: Laurence Horn
> >>  Subject: Re: I'd've
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> >>  At 2:35 AM +0000 7/31/09, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> >>>See "I'd've" below. I haven't seen a double apostrophe before.
> >>
> >>  Sheltered life! I've seen many, in particular involving variants of
> >>  this one ("she'd've", "they'd've", etc.). There are 137,000 raw
> >>  g-hits for "I'd've".
> >>
> >>  LH
> >>
> >>>
> >>>I have taught a lot of subjects and activities over the years and in
> >>>each case had a level of expertise higher than my students. I knew
> >>>the subject or sport, was more experienced in it, was able to model
> >>>and participate on a level higher than the students. I'd be able to
> >>>win a game (Well, I'd've won a few years back. Now I get awfully
> >>>tired.)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
> >>>see truespel.com
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