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English Contraction contr en colloquial dated en 'twasn't. en Susan B. Long Captain Put’s Novel Lippincott’s Magazine August 1881 167 https://archive.org/details/sim_mcbrides-magazine_1881-08_28/page/167/mode/1up?view=theater Then s’pose ’twa’n’t long afore he got tew likin’ her so well that he wanted her tew marry him,—honor bright, no sham, ner nothin’ privit’, but fair en square marriage,—en arter a good deal uv holdin’ back, en objectin’, en fearin’, she giv’ in tew this, tew; en M. L. T. Elisha Dodge’s Confession w:London Society XLIII CCLIII January 1883 87 https://archive.org/details/sim_london-society_1883-01_43_253/page/87/mode/1up?view=theater I know’d then ’twa’n’t no time to try and save the silver; en Mary Heaton Vorse Joshua’s Sotness Good Housekeeping Magazine L 1 (whole 375) January 1910 46 https://archive.org/details/sim_good-housekeeping_1910-01_50_1/page/46/mode/1up?view=theater No, Mis’ Hildreth, ’twa’n’t that she’d aged sence I’d seen her; besides, ’twa’n’t more’n a matter of seven or eight years sence she was visitin’ her ma’s folks in Thornton.