Contractio
Contractio est actus vocabulorum imminuendorum qui praesto est Anglice, Francogallice, Theodisce, et in multis aliis linguis.

Anglica verba immuenda fiat per utundum apostrophae. Exemplum in lingua Anglica est contractio verborum I (ego) ac have (habeo/teneo) ut verbum I've constituat, etiam constituat verbum e tribus vocabulis, sicut I'd've et shouldn't've.

 Abbreviatio
 Apocope
 Apostrophe
 Synalepha
 Syncope (phonetica)

Bibliographia
 Hart, Horace, James Augustus Henry Murray, et Henry Bradley. 1905. Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford, ed. 19a. Oxoniae: Oxford University Press.
 Roberts, R., et al. 2005. New Hart's Rules: The handbook of style for writers and editors. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861041-6.
 
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