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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.
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That's an interesting view. Reflecting on my own usage in less formal contexts, the /d/ of
I'd assimilates to the /b/ of
better, becoming an unreleased bilabial closure (but still voiced). This may sound fairly similar to 'I better' in most respects (it'd take either a speech spectrograph or a sensitive listener to tell the difference - mainly, a longer closure), but there
is a difference. The failure to produce that difference isn't a feature of standard English (not of BE anyway - I have no idea what they do in Canada
).
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