Diamat

Hic Up

Thirty years ago, I wrote a letter to an organisation that had advertised in a national news paper asking for small ideas that could change the world for the better. I suggested if the pronouns "I" and "you" were decapitalised and capitalised respectively – that is represented by "i" and "You" in the written language – then this change might learn us to become less selfish.

If I were to write such a letter now – I, at first instance – should focus upon the intersecting conditional tenses of would, could and should, and note:

I might go on to say that in particular dialects these tensal clauses are further contracted to wun't, cun't and shun't (in the negative), in a similar way as shall not is doubly contracted to shan't in both spoken and written forms of English.