Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 16:22:42 -0400

From: "Peter L. Patrick" PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET

Subject: Re: had've



Probably i should go home and check my Dare v.2 first. But in the

original citation, it seems like what's noted as "had've" could be

homophonous with reduced "would've" given monophthongization of /ay/:

"I wish had've gone"

/a: wIS' a:d[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]v gOn/

"Ah wish ah'd've gone"

and maybe a little aspiration at the end of the "wish" sibilant. If it

most often occurs in South and S.Midland speakers this could often be

true for first person pronouns. Is it common with other subjects too?

--plp