2022-02-11 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – D - don't & don't think

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2022-02-11

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – D - don't & don't think

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Dictionary.com:

ออกเสียง don't = “DOHNT”

 

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions:

don't & don't think

Don't is a contraction of do not.

Avoid such illiteracies as “he don’t” “they don’t got,” and “it don’t seem.”

Do is a verb in the present tense 

and is never used inthe third-person singular; use does. 

 

Don’t think, a familiar, widely used expression, is not wholly logical.

When one says “I don’t think I want to leave,” 

what he is really saying is that 

he does think that he doesn’t want to leave 

or he thinks that he wants to stay. 

Don’t think is not ungrammatical,

but it is a wordy, careless expression.

 

Dictionary.com:

HISTORICAL USAGE OF DON'T

Don't is the standard contraction for do not. 

 

As a contraction for does not, [use don't (which)]    

first appeared in writing in the latter half of the 17th century, 

about the same time as 

the first written appearance of other contracted forms with not, 

like mayn't and can't. 

Don't remained the standard contraction for does not 

in both speech and writing through the 18th century. 

 

During the 19th century, 

under pressure from those who thought it illogical 

and who preferred doesn't in that use, 

don't for does not gradually became less frequent in writing 

but continued to be common in speech. 

Don't for does not still occurs in the informal speech 

and in the personal writing of many Americans, 

including the well-educated,

especially in the Midland and Southern dialects. 

It does not occur in edited writing or formal speech.

Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary

don'ts                            

usage: 

As a contraction for does not, 

don't first appeared in writing in the latter half of the 17th century 

and remained standard in both speech and writing through the 18th. 

 

During the 19th century, 

under pressure from those who preferred doesn't in that use, 

don'tgradually became less frequent in writing 

but remained common in speech. 

 

Widely considered nonstandard, 

it still occurs in the informal speech and the personal writing 

of many Americans,  

including the well educated, esp. in the Midland and Southern dialects.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Usage of Don't

Contraction

Don't is the earliest attested contraction of does not 

and until about 1900 was the standard spoken form in the U.S. 

(it survived as spoken standard longer in British English). 

Dialect surveys find it more common 

in the speech of the less educated than in that of the educated; 

in those places (such as the Midland and southern Atlantic seaboard regions) 

where it has lasted in educated speech, 

it is most common with older informants. 

 

Surveys of attitudes toward usage 

show it more widely disapproved in 1971 than it had been 40 years earlier. 

Its chief use in edited prose is in fiction for purposes of characterization. 

It is sometimes used consciously, 

like ain't, to gain an informal effect.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Spelling Suggestions That Didn't Stick

"Dont" instead of "Don't"

Who Proposed the Change:

George Bernard Shaw

Why the Change:

George Bernard Shaw 

had no love for superfluous punctuation,

and did away with many (but not all) of the apostrophes 

in several of the printed versions of his plays, 

reasoning that 

people would understand what was meant without them.

He began by changing don't to dont and mustn't to mustnt,

but Shaw had grander dreams for English orthography, 

a system he found profoundly deficient. 

 

He left money in his will for whoever could come up 

with an improved system of writing, 

which would be called Shavian.