Contractions and blends
Two words that blend together to make a shorter word. If the two-word combination
is commonly written as one word with an apostrophe, we call it a contraction, such as
isn’t, that’s, or I’m. If the combination is not commonly written as one word, we can
call it a blend, such as /watəl/ for what will.
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