Having two separate styles within a single exhibit seems like an even worse
offense.

If conversational labels are to be attributed to any "School," it's borders
would have to include Seattle (Judy Rand), Ireland (Mary Ann Williams),
Atlanta (Carrie Dierks), and many, many others, as well as any number of
nationally-recognized style and usage books which cousel conversationality
and informality, and dismiss contraction phobia as unsupportable nonsense.

Anecdotally, my foreign-born girlfriend comes down on the pro-contraction
side, but she may be biased.

-- Eugene Dillenburg
(Minnesota, by the way)

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