"you pays your money"

[Laurence Horn]

>On Aug 15, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Larry Horn wrote:
>
>>I've always heard this
>
>heard?  or seen?  isn't the "yer" spelling just a representation of
>unaccented "your"?  or is it supposed to represent [j@] i
>
>>as "You pays yer money, you takes yer choice".

I meant I heard it as "...yer choice" rather than (the earlier cited)
"...yer chances"

LH

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