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1. Reduced Forms
slow spoken
to  ta
you  ya
for  fer
your/you’re  yer
or  er

2. Reduced Forms (cont.)
slow spoken
I am going to  I’m gonna
I want to  I wanna
I have to  I hafta
I have got to  I gotta
I do not know  I dunno

3. Reduced Forms (cont.)
slow spoken
and/an/in  ‘n
can  /kIn/
button  bu’n
The h - sound from “he/him/his” and th -sound
from “them” are often dropped (e.g. “hit ‘is car”,
“found ‘em at school”).

4. Reduced Forms (cont.)
slow spoken
“t” after a voiceless sound
 /t/
after a voiced sound 
/d/
/v/ before a word beginning
with a vowel  /v/
before a word starting with
a consonant is dropped
t + y (e.g got you = gotcha ) 