Grammatical oddity

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Something I've seen a few places lately, which really makes me twitch: the hyphenated contraction. I'm talking about did-n't, could-n't, and so forth. Surely not a legitimate usage! Ugh.

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[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen that (but it looks REALLY weird). One of my professors was writing "binary opposition" on the board today and wrote "bi-nary" which might be legitimate, but I've never seen it before and it looks weird to me.