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I'm Canadian, not from the UK, but I can't imagine contracting possessive nouns with had. Then again, this software contracts the with nouns rather aggressivel

I'm Canadian, not from the UK, but I can't imagine contracting possessive nouns with had. Then again, this software contracts the with nouns rather aggressively ("this truth is so well fixed in t'minds of t'surrounding families") which is something I've never heard of either.

gerdesj 9y ago
To be honest I think that would probably work best as: "this truth is so well fixed in t'minds of surrounding families" Simply drop the second definite article because it is redundant. Actually you could drop the first one as well. I can hear it in a generic North England accent and "in t'minds" would actually sound more like "int minds" but trying to run the word "of" into "t'" is a bit harder so it would probably be dropped entirely. I speak RP English with a touch of Mummerset ...