Received a Weekly Message from Daily Telegraph..noted the use of some contractions I've not seen before. Such as "We'ld love to hear....." and "...and we'ire". Curious..why and since when????

What happened to we'd?

"...and we'ire"

Report from the cave: I can't begin to imagine what we'ire is a contraction of.

Faldage, we'ire must be a contraction of we + tire. Or mebbe we + sire. I suppose inflection would determine whether the 'we' in question were tiring or siring.

Or "we fire" or "we mire" or...

How silly of me not to...

It has to be a contraction for 'we hire' with a dropped H. It is a Brit newspaper after all.

Welcome claystreet - just be patient with us!

Welcome claystreet,

could you provide us the use in a sentence? Also, I too have never heard of these contractions.

edit: It occurs to me the letters l and i could be the result of some sort of garbling... (there's a pattern here).

I think the copywriter ought to be f'ired...

...'cause we all sure'r ired...

Went a-googling and so far, most of the instances of we'ire or we ire were on pages written by non-native speakers and were obvious typos for we are.

If we can get TVR up in arms over this we might get it accepted in some dictionary someday.

We'ld love to hear....." and "...and we'ire"

Welcome clay,

If this is the Brit Daily Telegraph then I really can't understand the connection with any totally original constructions such as those you quote. The paper isn't renowned for its sense of adventure or for having a slightly surreal sense of humour.

Are you sure it isn't just a corrupted email (assuming that's what your "Weekly Message" is) or something?