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Sft M Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

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"What do you got?"

Is that sentence correct? I have listened this in an English movie.
  

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sft M I have listened heard this in an English movie. It is not standard English.

  • sft M I have listened heard this in an English movie.
  • It is not standard English.
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sft M I have listened heard this in an English movie.
It is not standard English.
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sft M"What do you got?"
What you heard is more likely an elided version of "what have you got?", where the "have" is almost squashed to a schwa!
I doubt that they actually said in that movie "what do you got?"
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teechrWhat you heard is more likely an elided version of "what have you got?", where the "have" is almost squashed to a schwa!
That sounds very likely to me.
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teechrmore likely an elided version of "what have you got?"
Yes, indeed. Whadda you got? comes from What have you got? not from What do you got? That D sound comes from the final T in 'what', not from the word 'do'.

A variant is Whatcha got?

Still, the original may have been the non-standard "What do you g

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