La Trina: Where's Jocque's looking-glass?
Native: where's Jocque's mirror?
La Trina: He hasn't one, has he?
N: He hasn't got (doesn't have) one, does 'e?
La Trina: Rats, he's worse off than you or I. He had better go and purchase one.
N: Say, he's worse off 'n you or me. He [1] better go buy one.
Jackofsky: I haven't a looking-glass, and La Trina hasn't either.
N: I haven't got (don't have) a mirror, neither (some British: nor) does La Trina.
La Trina: Yes, you have no work, although you surely shall have something until next week.
N: Yeah, but you haven't got (don't have) any work, thought you'll have somethin' by next week for sure.
Jackofsky: Tell us what you have and what you haven't.
N: Say what you've got and what you don't have.
La Trina: I have enough on which to get by, but I had better control it.
N: I [2] got enough to get by on, but I [1] better keep tabs on it.
- Aassimilation of 'd to b before band the subsequent allegro simplification of bb to b.
- With the normal allegro deletion of //v// between a nucleus and a consonant; in moderate tempos, this occurs only after an unstressed vowels, as in lotsa. Cf. allegro lots of 'em ['lots abm]
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