'tis
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /tɪz/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪz
Contraction[edit]
'tis
- (literary or archaic, also occasionally colloquial) Contraction of it is.
- ’Tis a shame!
- ’Tis but a scratch!
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3, scene 1:
- Mercutio [wounded]: "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
- 1825, unknown, Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 5:
- Why should we say 'tis yet too soon,
To seek for Heaven or think of death[.]
- 1844, Charles Dickens, The Chimes, Chapter III:
- It looks well in a picter, I've heerd say; but there an't weather in picters, and maybe 'tis fitter for that, than for a place to live in.
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See also[edit]
- 't
- 'twas, 'twasn't
- 'twere, 'tweren't
- 'twill/'tshall/it'll, 'twon't
- 'twould/'twou'd, 'twouldn't/'twou'dn't
Anagrams[edit]
Yola[edit]
Contraction[edit]
'tis
- Alternative form of tis
- NOTES TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE
- (3) "'Tis aul in shruaanès."
- NOTES TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 98
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