Heard on Jerry Springer: European-American _BIN + PrP

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

This is extremely common in colloquial American English. Often it's no more than the assimilation of v/ the following /b/ (I have been > I've been > I been).
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Thirty-ish, Southern-white male speaker confronting his girlfriend:

"I_BIN cheatin' on_ you!"


I've heard this structure used by white speakers about as often as
I've heard the structure, "BIN_told_ you," as opposed to "BIN
_tellin'_ you," from black speakers: rarely.

Further deponent sayeth not.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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