Without looking these up:
Wrought is the past participle of what common four-letter verb?
Taxicab is a contraction of what two nine-letter words?
Name a four-letter contraction of “That is the”. Note: it’s slang but well-known.
Wrought = past participle of “work”
Taxicab = taximeter cabriolet
The first two work for me. As for the third:
dat’s?
No, not “dat’s”…‘cause you’d still have to say “the” to make it a proper ebonic sentence…or at least “da”, as in
Dat’s da nine, da forty, da be-yotch n’ da Gee.
How about “this”?
I’m going to post the answer to the four-letter contraction question at about three- or four-o’-clock (Eastern time) if no one gets it by then.
I got it from a crossword puzzle in the Boston Globe some years back, and it stuck in my mind.
Hint: there’s no apostrophization.
Adda
Damn it, I just thought of that (although I was spelling “atta” as in “atta boy”) and by the time I made my back to the thread, Chrome Spot beat me to it.
[sub]I bet no one believes me, but it’s true, so there[/sub]
WAG: hist?
Correct! Although, yeah, the spelling most often encountered is atta.
Would a victory dance be appropriate now?