#I'm extremely stressed rn tho so its not surprising I'm getting hung up on contractions in my prose of all things

[tricornonthecob]

This is an odd question I guess but its bugging my hyperfixating brain: from what I understand, the period dialect of 18th century British North America would more likely contract "it is" to "'tis," instead of "it's," which is the default for a 21st century ear. I don't actually know how certain this is, though - human language is soft and pliable over time and no one group of people follow anything strictly, and how certain are we, anyway, that this would be a "correct" way to reconstruct the dialect?

Anyway, I'd like to write spoken grammar and cadence to be more period-accurate in my fanfics, but I do understand that going all-in on it risks making the dialogue sound contrived, which is, in my opinion, a greater sin than a little bit of anachronism in my contractions. The mortal sin of Can't Relate against the venial sin of A Little Bit Not Correct.

Anyway tl;dr what do y'all think?