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According to The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, the contraction she's may be pronounced both with a short [i] sound(as in pit) and a long [i:] sound(as in sheep) when it means she is, but it...

EDIT: I asked this question a while ago and most people’s answers or comments tend to be that there is no rule regarding this usage of the contraction “she’s” or contractions at all, but doing some digging (by accident) I cane upon this answer regarding clitics:

Sep 1, 2017 · I heard this expression in the TV series Better Call Saul. A character spoke to a secretary, and he seemed annoyed. After he spoke to her chief and said "your secretary is a real pip". What that ...

Sep 24, 2015 · "The apple of the eye" wasn't originally to do with apples, the fruit. It was a phrase meaning the pupil of the eye.

Is there a difference in usage between "he isn't"/"she isn't" and "he's not"/"she's not"? I think "he's not" and "she's not" are stronger because they put more emphasis on the word "not" than "he ...

Dec 21, 2020 · "She's happy" uses unicode character U+0027, which is an apostrophe. "She´s happy" uses unicode character U+00B4, which is an acute accent.

Dec 7, 2010 · In modern English, it is the counterpart of "do up", meaning to fasten (by whatever method - tie, glue, knot, zip, velcro).

Apr 27, 2024 · Green's Dictionary of Slang has many definitions of trip, both noun and verb.. The relevant one is noun 4.2d:. an odd, eccentric person; a funny person.

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