Mamet

[Dennis R. Preston]

Nope. "doesn't it" also becomes "donnit" through the well-known
/z/---> /d/ (see "business" -----> ) rule and subsequent assimilation
processes I laid out earlier.

dInIs




--- Anne Gilbert <avavgilbertRODIGY.NET> wrote:
>  Duane:
>
... and "done
>  it" for "doesn it."
...

>  I've heard "init" but not "donit"
>  Anne G

"Donit" is for "don't it", not "doesn it".  I hear
this all the time - in movies, on TV, in daily speech.
  Much, much more common, to my hearing anyway, than "init".

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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic,
      Asian & African Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
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