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English Contractions Dictionary

Source: R/data.R
english_contractions.Rd

A comprehensive dictionary of English contractions and their expansions, ranging from standard contractions to archaic and dialectal forms. The scope column distinguishes between basic everyday contractions (scope "basic", 70 entries from qdapDictionaries) and extended contractions (scope "extended", covering archaic second-person forms, dialect reductions, dropped-g progressives, apocopic forms, and informal variants from textnorm/ECHNAE).

Format

A data frame with 550 rows and 6 variables.

Source

qdapDictionaries (GPL-2), textnorm/ECHNAE, curated/textnorm

Variables

  • form. the contracted form (e.g., "don't", "bear'st", "gonna")

  • replacement. the expanded form (e.g., "do not", "bearest", "going to")

  • category. type of contraction (negation, perfect, conditional, future, progressive, is_or_has_or_possessive, first_person, apocopic, archaic_second_person, dialect_reduction, dropped_g, informal, contraction_other)

  • subcategory. finer-grained classification (e.g., apostrophe_st, apocopic, n_reduction)

  • scope. "basic" for the original 70 entries, "extended" for expanded coverage

  • source. data source attribution