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I noticed that contractions were not used in the movie True Grit. When were contractions first introduced into the English language?
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∙ 12y ago
If I am not mistaken, 'True Grit' is a fictional American Western novel, set in the 1800s.
The contraction "ain't" was coined in 1706, but it may not have been the first.
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