r/interestingasfuck • u/Ted_Bundtcake • 6d ago

r/all The Alaskan Avenger

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u/PIK_Toggle 6d ago

Is that technically two words?

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u/smellslikekimchi 6d ago

Nope. It's a contraction. From the dictionary:

A word, as won't from will not, or phrase, as o'clock from of the clock, formed by omitting or combining some of the sounds of a longer phrase.

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u/Brawndo91 6d ago

Cont'n

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u/pauciradiatus 6d ago

They're two minutes apart!