Sam at BLAG<p>Just finished 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy.</p><p>While reading it, I noticed that all the contractions of the form 'word+not' (e.g. don't, won't, isn't, weren't) drop their apostrophe to give dont, wont, isnt, werent, etc.</p><p>However, all the other contactions are written as you'd expect, with an apostrophe. </p><p>Can anyone more literate than me explain why this stylistic device might have been employed?</p><p>cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shadychars" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>shadychars</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://typo.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/TheRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRoad</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/CormacMcCarthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CormacMcCarthy</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a></p>