Meanings
- contractionpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of he’ll.
Judy: (Pretending to assume she is referring to the gardener... one of her streams of unconciousness^([sic])) I know it’s cos ’es new when we’ve got ’im trained ’e’ll be as good as gold like me know ’is place jump when ’es asked no ’olding ’im like a frog ’e’ll be jump jump jump...
1998, David Griffiths, Please Be Gentle: A Conjectural Evaluation of the Masked Performance of the Comedia Dell’Arte, →ISBN, page 78
Origin
A representation of the pronunciation of he’ll by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).
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