Twas

[cgsmith]

My spellchecker (Google Docs) is trying to get me to change "It was the night before" to "Twas the night before"

Now is it just me or is this not a thing? I am writing Post Apocalypse. I mean it might be right if I was writing in the past or something.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Maybe your spellchecker is Irish - we use 'twas quite a bit.

 

[mosaix]

'twas is fine.

 

[prizzley]

Ignore it. It will be thinking of some usage other than the one you want.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Your spellchecker clearly can't wait for Christmas.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Your spellchecker was obviously programmed by Clement Clarke Moore.

 

[Toby Frost]

'Twas the night after fallout
And all over the vault
Fingers were pointed
As to whose fault
It had been that the bombs flew,
Making Earth into Hell
And filled it with zombies
And giant insects as well.

Who released all the triffids
And made cities explode?
Who stuck spikes on the sports cars
And let them fight on the road?
Why, it was authors
Who did the whole thang -
For why go out with a whimper
When you can write in a bang?

 

[ErikB]

'Twas the night after fallout
And all over the vault
Fingers were pointed
As to whose fault
It had been that the bombs flew,
Making Earth into Hell
And filled it with zombies
And giant insects as well.

Who released all the triffids
And made cities explode?
Who stuck spikes on the sports cars
And let them fight on the road?
Why, it was authors
Who did the whole thang -
For why go out with a whimper
When you can write in a bang?

Thaaa'twas lovely!

(I couldn't help it. It just came out...)

LOL.

 

[Justin Swanton]

'Twas clear 'twere but a glitch in your spellchecker. 'Twill be naught to make yon checker right again.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Did your mouse stir?

 

[Stephen Thompson]

I normally put the apostrophe after the t, for example:

t'was

As an aside, sometimes I do two; depending on who I'm talking to, like, I wouldn't put this in literature, but where I'm from (norn iron), people say
"go away and f***" (to mean the same as f*** off) but the way it's actually pronounced verbally would write like:

g'way'n f***

 

[HareBrain]

I normally put the apostrophe after the t, for example:

t'was

The apostrophe is to indicate the missing letter(s), though, and there isn't one of those between the t and the w. (You could argue there's a missing space, but then we'd have would'n't, not wouldn't.)