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‘He better do (something or other)’

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Witzend Sun 14-Jun-26 11:47:51

I keep seeing variations of this, instead of ‘He had better do…’
Is it just me?
Fellow pedants, please tell me I’m not the only one…

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NotSpaghetti Mon 15-Jun-26 08:05:00

Is it just the way the phrase is spoken and what they are really saying is "He had better do…"
- but its been shortened to
"He'd better do..."
and then the d and the b are too "difficult" to annunciate?

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