Etymology

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From an unstressed you (/jə/) after a word ending in /t/; the unstressed sequence /tj/ coalesces into /tʃ/ ⟨ch⟩ in many accents. Compare didja.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.