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Originally Posted by riverkid  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". |
That this is a reduction is clear; that it is correct is a matter of opinion. Most teachers I know would call it incorrect.