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I guess the Regency period in particular hates contractions

Yes. There are some very faithful film/TV adaptations of Austen's novels where the constant use of "do not you" (where we would say "don't you") really jumps out, even more than it does in prose. Some years ago I stopped using as many contractions in writing and I really think it coincided with my period of reading a lot of Regency romances.

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