What Do You Call This?

rogersgeorge on September 4th, 2024

First panel first line, last word.

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It means “trying to” but you know that. Should we call it an an apostropheless contraction? I think there’s a linguistic name for this kind of word combination…

Maybe “word merger.” If you know, tell me!

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What Do You Call This?

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