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Originally Posted by BobK  I'd better not. A lot of people - native speakers as well as English language learners - don't hear the "'d", so don't produce it. I better not is wrong, but very common.
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No, it's not wrong, Bob. It's just a slightly different form. This occurs all the time in language. It's called phonological reduction.
Do you want to go?
D'you want to go?
D'ya wanna go?
Every ENL is fully aware that our language contains, "I had better"; "I'd better"; "I better".