I thank you all for the grammar lesson, I guess I asked for it...

My larger question is: given the communication of the ideas seem to be successful without addin' an article "a" (or the plural "s" when talking about the collective "stinkin' book"), it is the additional sound(s), or lack thereof, which I seek the splaynin' for. Those gratuitous US's addin' something extra again or are they keepin' up some long standin' "puritan" tradition?