usuallyright
It ain't alus jus t' lazy speak, there's alus the self fust that should be corrected. There follows a sample of my meaning.
Say for instance, you were talking to someone who said "Me and me mother went to town today" This would break down to Me mother went to town and, me went to town as well.
Now is that proper English or is it proper, what?
I see you are not totally fluent in accents, usuallyright
What is frequently misheard and mistranscribed as 'me' is often, in reality 'mi' - that is to say, 'my' with the 'y' pronounced the same way as the first 'y' in 'mystery'.
I know, because I am a native speaker of that language.
Where I grew up, the words 'was' and 'were' are often wrongly heard and transcribed too (subtitles drive me mad with regard to this!)
My native version of 'I was' and 'we were' would be I wa' ' and 'we we', just shortened versions of the correct words, and although I've written them differently to emphasise the fact that they are abbreviations, they both sound the same most of the time, with a schwa
I'm not denying that many people do misuse those two words, but just as often the error lies with listeners making lazy and incorrect assumptions.
Before anyone says, "that's still not the correct pronunciation", I'd like to point out that nor is the way that many a supposedly well-spoken person pronounces simple words such as 'no' - it only has one vowel in it, yet it is frequently pronounced as if it has at least three!