why is “can not” spelt like both “cannot” and “can’t”?

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why is “can not” spelt like both “cannot” and “can’t”?

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They obviously are the same but one is more formal in writing, Cannot. Can’t is a contraction of cannot used in informal writing. Can not is used when it is before a phrase with “not”, such as “not only, “I can not only”.

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