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Don't waste your time remembering these things. This is not 'good' English. For a start I am sure you already know the apostrophe and it's purpose (I will = I'll, I am = I'm, do not = don't, etc). As for the other 'words'... well, this is endless. Some of those are abbreviations, others are 'pronunciation spellings' or 'eye dialect'. Read some Mark Twain as a classic example of this where he changes the spelling of words to imply the characters Southern 'drawl'. The idea is that you can spell a word to reflect the way the person said it. For example, someone from London with a strong London accent might say "I'm from Landun". Or for another example, the word water, Americans ofter say 'warder' and Londoners often say 'war'er'. Your friend, speaking with this accent, is maybe from Scotland. Fairly certainly from Britain... and either way, probably is not from a higher class (as much as classes still exist). :)