Grammar question

[amc80]

It's been a while since we've had a good grammar thread. Soooo, here we go. Consider the following (lame) sentence:

"I have not been to the park."

This can potentially be contracted two ways (right?):
1) "I've not been to the park."
2) "I haven't been to the park."

Is one way more correct than the other?

(Yes, I'm bored at work today.)

ETA- added a poll.

 

[Kaleigh]

#2??

 

[boerumbiddy]

No. 1 sounds English, No. 2 sounds American. Just my opinion.

 

[amc80]

No. 1 sounds English, No. 2 sounds American. Just my opinion.

That is what I thought as well. But whhhyyyy? I know we have some grammar experts on here and a few linguists and such.

 

[Kaleigh]

Just for fun, #1 would be how the people from the UK would say?? I can just hear Lorelie saying #1 to me.

Just teach me how to spell. Spell check isn't working for me...

 

[Kaleigh]

I will call her tomorrow to ask her!!!

 

[amc80]

I added a poll...

 

[Dancing Fire]

I will call her tomorrow to ask her!!!

Is she still alive?..

 

[Kaleigh]

I will call her tomorrow to ask her!!!

Is she still alive?..

I will send her your love, LOL..

 

[Laila619]

They are both correct. "I've not been" sounds a bit more, er, stuffy maybe?

 

[packrat]

I use both, depending on...nothing other than how it comes out I guess. Maybe in a group setting I'd say "I've" more often? Like one day at work we were all having lunch together and they were talking about a pumpkin patch and someone asked if anyone had been to it, everyone was chiming in. I said "I've not, but it looks fun and I'd like to take the kids". Sometimes I say "We've", "We've not".

Makes me a stuffy Iowan I guess!

 

[Dancing Fire]

They are both correct. "I've not been" sounds a bit more, er, stuffy maybe?

They are both wrong!. It should be.. "I AIN'T been to the park..

 

[sonnyjane]

I am from the US and picked "I've not been...." If it is a more foreign version of the phrase, it would make sense. I tend to pronounce words in a very "British" fashion even though I have absolutely no reason to lol! This would just be one to add to the list.

 

[justginger]

#1 is more formal, #2 less so. Both are correct. I'm guessing many down here would say it the first way, it would be luck of the draw which way I'd say it, though my first instinct would be #2.

 

[JewelFreak]

Wherever I've lived in the States, it would overwhelmingly be "I haven't been..." (that's New England, northern NY state, Manhattan, the upper South, San Francisco, Chicago area). "I've not been..." is more common in the UK. Neither is incorrect, obviously.

--- Laurie

 

[NOYFB]

They are both correct. "I've not been" sounds a bit more, er, stuffy maybe?

That's what I thought too, but I have used both..or, I've used both.