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Hallo, hello, hullo everyone. I'm a new boy. When people these days pronounce 'going to' (as in "I'm going to do it tomorrow") it seems to me they mostly say 'genna' or 'gonna'? Like it or not, it's commonplace. I believe this should be in dictionaries. What do you think?
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I notice the mispronouncing of the word "to". It comes out
more often as going "tuh", not "too".
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Hallo, hello, hullo everyone. I'm a new boy. When people these days pronounce 'going to' (as in "I'm going to do it tomorrow") it seems to me they mostly say 'genna' or 'gonna'? Like it or not, it's commonplace. I believe this should be in dictionaries. What do you think? By the way, WELCOME.
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Thank you both. Glad somebody agrees (btw, I had to Google AHD4). Give me time, I'll learn.
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I just noticed that I would say
"Ahm goinduh-thuh store - yew need ennuh thehn?"
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What do you think?
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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What with gimme this and temme that and gotta go?
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Or "widja didja," as is "Ya din' bring no beer widja, didja?"
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I would say that "I am going to the store today." but that "I'm gunna/gonna buy milk while I'm there." Totally different pronunciations.
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I would say that "I am going to the store today." but that "I'm gunna/gonna buy milk while I'm there." Totally different pronunciations. You might hear "I'm goinna the store today," but probably never "I'm gonna the store today.' You also might hear "I'm gonna gohduh the store today."
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Hear it said it today, Faldage. Down South we don't waste words, we waste conventionality. "Where ye'ens goin'?" "We'uns gonna the store; you want sumpthin'?" God, how I love the South. 
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