#114 λIℓ
In #94 we started looking at contractions.
Here is a list of specifically those contractions of the word not to n’t with counts of how many times each appear, totalling 1,332 occurrences.
| aren’t | 36 |
| can’t | 214 |
| couldn’t | 24 |
| didn’t | 135 |
| doesn’t | 146 |
| don’t | 447 |
| hadn’t | 18 |
| hasn’t | 9 |
| haven’t | 24 |
| isn’t | 73 |
| shouldn’t | 20 |
| wasn’t | 66 |
| weren’t | 16 |
| won’t | 55 |
| wouldn’t | 49 |
In a future beanbag, we’ll look at the distribution of these by section and by speaker.