"Double contractions" have two apostrophes where letters have been deleted. Wiktionary has a page of
over 40 examples, including..
'tisn't
couldn't've
it'd've
mustn't've
they'd've
...and so on, most of them predictably contractions of common verbs. Here are the ones I found most interesting -
sha'n't, which came into use after the more commonly seen shan't,
y'all're, which I heard for years when I lived in Texas,
'n' (as in rock 'n' roll or fish 'n' chips), which I'll bet is most commonly printed with just one apostrophe, but obviously should have two.
- and the three nouns on the list:
bo's'n
fo'c'sle, and
ha'p'orth
The new word for the day is "
clitic," defined as "a morpheme that functions like a word, but appears not as an independent word but rather is always attached to a following or preceding word. In English, the possessive
-'s is an example."
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