Talk:all's well that ends well

displacement

Does it show a displacement from "all that ends well is well"? --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:25, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

It's a Shakespeare play title. It was normal grammar then; e.g. (King Lear) "all's meet with me that I can fashion fit" (= everything that I can adapt to my own purposes is all right with me). Equinox ◑ 19:29, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

@Equinox: do you know whether this 's the Contraction of as (when it is (nonstandardly) used as a relative conjunction, or like a relative pronoun, meaning "that"? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:16, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@Backinstadiums: "All's" is short for "all is". Equinox ◑ 19:05, 6 April 2020 (UTC)