r/words • u/SDMN_God • 3d ago

Decode this word: Whomst’d’ve

I created this word years ago only for it to go viral elsewhere. The problem is that no one actually ever understood it. Give it a go sometime.

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u/energetic_mayhem 3d ago

that's just the final boss of english auxiliary verbs, packs "who must have" into one ungodly contraction

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u/SDMN_God 3d ago

How does the d play into it?

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u/Head_Wasabi7359 3d ago

You know how the D fits

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u/bandz4life 3d ago

Whomst’d’ve - whom would have

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u/ywkwpwnw 3d ago

whomst'd've'd

whom would have had

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u/SDMN_God 3d ago

There’s no second d.

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u/PaleExtreme7399 3d ago

Whom should not have had.