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It's been in the OED since the 2nd edition (1989). The first citation is from 1913 "C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy ix. 149 Yo're gonna get a good lickin'."
It also offers a comparison with an earlier Scots spelling: "[Cf. the earlier Sc. ganna, gaunna: see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Go, quots. 1806, etc.]" It seems a perfectly good transcription of how "going to" is pronounced, in US English at least, in casual conversation. The t-to-n change is an example of assimilation in phonology.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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