i have been listen about agglutinate the "g" of "ing" and "d" of "ed" but i dont know if take off the "d" from "ed" is a slang too. thanks =)

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I typed more, but it did not post it all. here are some other words kid = child kids = children gotta = got to outta = out of ya = you This is mostly southern slang and "Idiomatic Expressions", I would recommend not using any of this when speaking. Just learn to recognize these words or phrases, so that you will know what people mean when they say them.

I am from the "south", as most people from the US would say, which means most of my accent and most of the slang speech that I am familiar with is what some might call 'southern' or 'redneck'. I have tried all of my life to keep from being labelled with such things by correcting my speech on a daily basis, enunciating, and practicing proper diction, however I will try to cover a few of the basics slang phrases or words found in the south eastern region of the US. Let's start with the most common word of all. "Yall" - It refers to a group of people. Not any specific type of group. You use it similar to the way that you use the word "you", but instead of referring to an individual person it refers to the group of people that you are targeting with your statement or question. It is considered an illegitimate compound form of the phrase "you all". For example: Are yall ready to leave? I don't want to be late. In this example "yall" is referring to the group of people preparing to leave. Next let's cover words that end in "ing" such as "living" or "riding". In the south it is common for many people to ignore the "g" on the end of almost any verb ending in "ing". Instead they pronounce "Riding" as "Ridin", in which, the first "i" is pronounced like the "i" in "Life" or "High", and the second "i" is pronounced like the "i" in "Lip" or "Trip". There are exceptions to this rule though, such as, "sing", "ring", "fling", and a few others. When saying single syllable words like this you do not shorten the "ing". You would instead pronounce the "ing" as "ang" using the long "a" sound similar to "rake", "cake", or "tale". So "ring" would become "rang", and "sing" would become "sang", although "ang" is the slang pronunciation of "ing", it is also used properly as the past tense of the word. For example to "sing" is present tense, and to have "sang" is past tense and this is the proper way to express the past tense of these words. When people use the slang words "rang",