Is "I'd" a word?

[PopeyeTheSailorMan]

:-/

 

[loup garou]

It's a contraction.

 

[jlee]

It's a contraction for "I would".

 

[BrianH1]

its a contraction. informal conversation its appropriate, but do not use it in formal writing.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Contraction.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: loup garou
It's a contraction.

 

[dighn]

it ain't

 

[loup garou]

Doctor! The contractions are 1 post apart!

 

[ManSnake]

I'd say it's a word alright.

 

[PopeyeTheSailorMan]

and a word cannot be a contraction? right?

 

[loup garou]

Ugh...your post was better without that crappy IM log, take it back out. If I had known that stupid argument had spawned this request, I wouldn't have answered.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: PopeyeTheSailorMan
and a word cannot be a contraction? right?

English ain't Scrabble, bud. Contractions are words.

 

[middlehead]

I use it verbablly, but I'd never write it

 

[So]

I'd is definitely the contraction of I would.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Your friend is simply being over-technical and being a smart-arse. He's technically correct, he didn't say "would". He said something that had an exactly equivalent meaning, but he didn't actually say "would".

ZV

 

[alcoholbob]

It's a word in informal useage, but not allowed in formal useage. However, it's still a word.

Think of having to dress up for work. Even though you can't wear your tye-dye shirt to work, it's still a shirt. It's just not a shirt for work.

To say a contraction is not a word is a selective bias based on individual ideosyncracies and environmental mores. It's still a signal for communication, a verbal composition, therefore it has to be word--unless it wasn't something in common useage. These things are a transitory thing. A while ago "bling" wasn't a word because of its limited social dispersion, but it's understood now and is in common useage. It is now a word.

 

[slayer202]

people, he is asking if it is a word or not. contradictions are words. wouldn't couldn't etc. I suppose I'd is a word

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: ManSnake
I'd say it's a word alright.

"All right", not alright.

 

[ManSnake]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: ManSnake
I'd say it's a word alright.

"All right", not alright.

Same difference!

 

[enyce2k9]

subject a: she fine
subject b: i'd hit it

 

[LookingGlass]

I'd like to think so.

 

[KillerCharlie]

"I'd" can be both "I would" or "I had." Similarly, "she'd" can be both "she would" and "she had." Look in the dictionary....

 

[Bryophyte]

It is a contraction for both "I would" and "I had".