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April 13, 2008

contraction reaction

~~What's~~ What is your take on the use of contractions in formal writing? The California Blog of Appeal wants to know. And if you disapprove in general, would you react badly to a brief that referred to an event occurring "at ten o'clock"?

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You mean you don't write "ten of the clock"?

Posted by: Greg May | Apr 13, 2008 3:42:44 PM

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