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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti
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You can drop any one or two of those apostrophes and the word is still just as technically "correct".
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Meaning if you were to drop the apostrophe in lieu of the subtracted letters.
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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti
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contractions simply can't be used to abbreviate words in the past tense, because all you'd be doing is replacing one letter with an apostrophe.
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Meaning for the sole purpose of shortening only the past tense component of that word. Obviously you can still abbreviate past tense words, e.g., "Dude, you totally got fo'c's'led.