Re: Story - TCOAIW
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 12, 2002, 3:13 |
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David Starner wrote:
> There's the always interesting "Do you want to?" -> "Ya wanna?" found in
> Oklahoman (American Midwest) English. Speaking a normal tempo, I find it
> hard not to contract "want to" to "wanna".
Well, yeah, but that's a different phenomenon. I meant contractions
involving auxilaries or "to be". I'd also say "Are you gonna?" and the
like.
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