Talk:'d

Shakespeare

Is the Shakespeare quotation real: "Hath thou mark'd the dawn of next?" Surely it would be "hast"; and I can't find it on the Web at all. Equinox ◑ 03:07, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

pronunciations

What are its different pronunciations? --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:16, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

According to Longman Pronunciation Dictionary

'd —This contracted form of had/would is used only after words (usually pronouns) ending in a vowel sound: he’d hiːd. After a word ending in a consonant the spelling ’d implies merely a weak form, [əd]: it’d [ɪt̬əd].
The occasional contracted form of did (especially AmE) is pronounced in the same way.
What, when followed by weak do/does/did, is sometimes [wʌ].

However, in the following clip "the fuck'd I tell ya" d is not pronounced with [əd]'. One might think that it's phonological context allows it, namely a cluster of no more than 3 consonants; yet, similarly sometimes when 'll is appended to it, what, or there, without an interfering schwa or dark [ɫ̩] even when another consonant follows. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:50, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Discussions regarding hyphens

Other talk pages where discussions can be found especially once two ongoing RFC and RFD threads are archived regarding whether or not things similar to this should include hyphens are Talk:-'re/Talk:'re and Talk:-'ve/Talk:'ve; other related entries include -'m/'m, -'s/'s, -'ll/'ll; see also -', '. - -sche (discuss) 09:22, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Possible additional usage

From my experience, 'd is sometimes used after acronyms to make past tense, rather informally I must say:

• “The boxer KO'd his opponent.”
• “The competitor was DQ'd from the race.”

--Diriector Doc (talk) 17:44, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

That is documented under -'d. — surjection ⟨??⟩ 17:46, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

should

But in meanings to do with obligation or likelihood the full form should has to be used --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:19, 27 February 2021 (UTC)