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Appendix C

In a Store
Carol: May I help you?
/May I help ya?/
Mary: Yes, I would like to buy a pair of shoes.
/Yes, I’d like tabuy apaira shoes./
Carol: What size are you?
/What sizer ya?/
Mary: 8 narrow
Carol: What color do you like?
/What color do ya like?/
Mary: I want a pair of white shoes.
/I wanna paira white shoes./
Carol: Did you want dressy or casual shoes?
/Didja want dressy or casual shoes?/
Where are you going to wear them?
/Where ya gonna wear ’em?/
Mary: To a wedding.
Carol: What color is your dress?
/What color’s yer dress?/
Mary: White.
Carol: You can’t wear white to a wedding!
/Ya can’t wear white to a wedding!/
Mary: But I am the bride!
/But I’m the bride!/

There are many informal expressions you will hear. They include,
for example, the following slang greetings:

How ya doin’?

How’s it goin’?
What’s doin’?

What’s happenin’?

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