Did Not They or Didn't They Contract
In writing historical fiction, one is faced with the dilemma of knowing how people really spoke. Often readers think of "ole timey" language as sounding British, even as recently as the early 1900s. Reading newspapers and other print at the time proves this is not the case. Here is an interesting response to the question of did people use contractions long ago on the StackExchange's Forum English Language and Usage and from Today I Found Out. Note: these are not primary resou