SPUG: Software to expand contractions?

[Dan Ebert]

Since we're on a grammar thread ... that should be 'fewer words to
read.'  Less is used for a matter of degree or with items like these:

add less water (but fewer water molecules)
have less money (but fewer dollars)

I think the rule is something to do with the plural (use fewer with a
pluralized word) but am not sure.

(Sorry, one of my pet peeves are the signs at the grocery checkouts that
say '10 items or less.')

:)

Dan.

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 16:54, Stuart Poulin wrote:
> 's is also a contraction for "has".
> i..e "It's been proven"
>  
> "He's" could be "He is" or "He has" depending on context.
>  
> I'd say keep the contractions in - less words to read.
>  
> 
> 
> Tim Maher <tim at consultix-inc.com> wrote:
> 
>         Dudes,
>         
>         I'm getting complaints from some early reviewers of my book
>         about all the "contractions" I'm using in my writing!
>         So last night I set out to write a Perl script to make changes
>         like the following:
>         
>         That's => That is
>         He's => He is
>         They're => They are
>         We're => We are
>         
>         Then I realized that the 's ending usually needs replacement
>         by
>         "is", so I tried
>         
>         "'s" => ' is'
> 
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