dropped 's

[Tom Zurinskas]

In the below passage the 's is not pronounced three times (she's, mother's, she's).  Where that from?

"She my mother sister and I used to call her 'Auntie [Ejn.ti < [An.ti]Rainey,' (sounded like "ANE teeRAINY") but now, since she suing me, Ijust call her 'Lorraine'."



Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> Subject: Heard on Judge Mathis
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> Fifty-ish, black female speaker from Chicago:
>
> "My niece called me up and aksed for me to _co-sign for her a car_."
>
> "I have me a good, government job. I couldn't afford to get up one
> morning, go out, and find my car _stapled to the sidewalk_ [i.e.,
> booted]."
>
> Twenty-ish, black female speaker from Chicago:
>
> "She my mother sister and I used to call her 'Auntie [Ejn.ti < [An.ti]
> Rainey,' (sounded like "ANE teeRAINY") but now, since she suing me, I
> just call her 'Lorraine'."
>
>
> Sixty-ish, black male speaker from Cincinnati:
>
> "I'm a recovering addict, your honor. I been clean for six years."
>
> Judge Mathis:
>
> "What were you addicted to?"
>
> Speaker:
>
> "Hehra-wawn [hE.r at wOn], uh, I mean, 'heroin,' your honor."
>
>
> Given that "heh-rawn' and "hehra-wawn" have long - ten years? - been
> the currently-hip, BE pronunciations and are used regularly by Judge
> Mathis himself, it was strange that the speaker felt that he needed to
> correct himself to the standard pronunciation, especially before a
> black judge. But, of course,
>
> Youneverknow.
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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.
> -Mark Twain
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