Talk:hadn't've

This is actually a citation of wouldn't 've, but it shows that the juxtaposition of those two contractions is at least as old as the 1880s:

• 1880, Almon Benson Richmond, Leaves from the Diary of an Old Lawyer, page 187:

  […] an' if I hadn't 've got the drink, I wouldn't 've bin drunk; an' if I hadn't bin drunk, I wouldn't 've got into the fight ; an' if I hadn't 've got into the fight, I wouldn't 've bin here this mornin', […]

- -sche (discuss) 04:28, 7 February 2015 (UTC)