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  1. John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 @[email protected] ·

    On a couple of recent occasions, I noticed a couple of phrases in which contractions seem cumbersome:

    used bookstore
    summer homeowners

    Is the bookstore used to sell new books?

    Are the homes owned by someone else when summer is over?

    I think the contractions imply both (and of course both are silly) so the would read easier with the contractions broken, making them:

    used book store
    summer home owners

    What do you think?

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