Any word truncation that has been in use for over 50 years (or even five years, in our rapidly changing world!) will not be given an apostrophe to indicate the missing letters by Americans.
What about 'cause (ie, truncation of because)? I see people putting the apostrophe there, presumably to avoid ambiguity. Before I started writing American English, I would've just spelt it cos, but no one seems to use that, so I tend to follow the herd. :-)
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26/4/08 05:21 (UTC)Any word truncation that has been in use for over 50 years (or even five years, in our rapidly changing world!) will not be given an apostrophe to indicate the missing letters by Americans.
What about 'cause (ie, truncation of because)? I see people putting the apostrophe there, presumably to avoid ambiguity. Before I started writing American English, I would've just spelt it cos, but no one seems to use that, so I tend to follow the herd. :-)