a whole nother

[Tom Zurinskas]

>  I'd ruther -->  I druther  ---> If I had my druthers.


Again, the natural tendency in speaking English to end a syllable with a
vowel and start the next syllable with a consonant-vowel form.  So you get I
druther.  Then we get silly with it and treat druther as a word, a noun yet.

Another is "it is" pronounced "i tis".

Tom Z

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