Are you still fearful of using contractions?
Don’t be. They have a long and storied history.
For more, see my article “Contractions and how not to abuse ‘em.”
(Hat tip to Ray Ward.)
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Thanks for this. I saw the Coen Brother’s version of True Grit recently and enjoyed it, and also noticed that absence of contractions (there may have been a few but none that I noticed). I was also curious about whether contractions at the time were widely used or not. Your article and also the article from the Grammarphobia blog helped a great deal.