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- You're probably familiar
with regular contractions made
with two words like you'd and didn't.
And you've probably even used contractions with three words
like she'd've and wouldn't've.
I'd've thought they'd've been familiar to you
and you wouldn't've been surprised to hear them.
But can we contract more than three words?
More than four?
You'dn't've guessed they're possible, but they are.
Many are dialectal or regional.
Y'all'll've heard them from Southerners
in places like Texas or Georgia,
where they'dn't've thought twice about using them.
We could've guessed at more, but at some point y'all'dn't've
been able to understand them anyway.