Watch Your Contractions!
rogersgeorge on July 30th, 2020
You might know this joke:
A guy visits the doctor’s office and has an examination.
Doctor: Looks like you have a henweigh.
Patient: What’s a henweigh?
Doctor: Oh, about five or six pounds.
If you don’t know the joke, it might take a second to get it. The humor hinges on the meaning of the contraction apostrophe s, which the patient uses to mean “what is” and the doctor deliberately takes it to mean “what does.”
Ambiguous contractions aren’t common, but they happen, so watch out.
Feel free to put any that come to mind in the comments.
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