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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Surely not. I flagged them in the text I was proofreading.