He touched her shoulder and she lifted herself on her elbows, head tipped up to peer at him, the eyes black-shadowed emptiness. “S’you,” she gasped. “Killed . . . guard[…]”
“Who’d yer reckon’ll skipper, Loll?” “I dunno.S’hard to say—”
1993 October, Glenn Alterman, “Men’s Monologues”, in2 Minutes and Under: Original Character Monologues for Actors, Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus,→ISBN,page 1:
S’cold here, very cold . . . in Siberia.
2007, Christine Fieldhouse, “Is Your Daddy Going to Heaven or Helen?”, inWhy Do Monsters Come Out at Night?, London:Hay House,→ISBN,page274:
And what was my dad trying to say? Shut up?S’hot in here? Or sorry?
2011, Joan Kilby, chapter 13, inIn His Good Hands, Toronto, Ont.:Harlequin,→ISBN,page231:
“I’m not drunk,” she said, waving her glass. “I never drink more than two glasses of wine.” She frowned. “Althoughs’hard to count when the glass is never empty.[…]”
2013, Michael Goodell, chapter 13, inRebound, Diana, Tex.: White Bird Publications,→ISBN,page198:
Then it rang. Pick up. “Jim? Jim? Are you there?” / Something s’posed to do. Oh, yeah. Talk. “Karn.S’you?” / “Jim what’s going on?[…]”
2017 August 8,Robert J[an] Mrazek, chapter 18, inDead Man’s Bridge (A Jake Cantrell Mystery; 1), New York, N.Y.: Crooked Lane Books,→ISBN,page191:
“Ben,” I called out to him again. His eyes slowly opened and took me in. “S’you, Jake?” he mumbled. “Yeah.”
William chewed and swallowed. “S’what about the Council?” “What about them?” “Aren’t they going to do anything?”
1990 April, Jo Goodman, “February 13, 1873—Washington, D.C.”, inPassion’s Sweet Revenge (Marshall Brothers; 2), New York, N.Y.:Zebra Books,→ISBN,page330:
“S’what about the baby?” he asked, thrusting his chin out. / So he did remember. Scott was beginning to wonder. “A little girl,” he said. He added bluntly, “She lived only a few minutes.”
THANKS FOR THE OFFER CHAS, BUT EVEN IF YOU COULD GET IN, HAVING A GRANDDAD CHARGING ACROSS THE DANCE FLOOR IN HIS TESCO’S DENIM MAY NOT BE SUCH A GOOD IDEA. /S’WHAT ABOUTJOHN THEN? / IF HE’S WITHME, CHAS, LET’S JUST SAY HE’S STILLGOT IT.
1995,Daniel Alexander Jones,Earthbirds, Jazz, and Raven’s Wings (unpublished manuscript), page18; quoted in Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, “The Blue Note: Daniel Alexander Jones”, inTheatrical Jazz: Performance,Àṣẹ, and the power of the Present Moment (Black Performance and Cultural Criticism), Columbus, Oh.:Ohio State University Press,2015,→ISBN, part 1 (The Ensemble /Ẹgbẹ́ / Community),page83:
Down there you also had a lot of / Intermarriage and half-breeding /S’you don’t know who’s who
1996, Donald Johnston, chapter 11, inThe Echoes of L’Arbre Croche,[Michigan?]: Lord & Allerton,→ISBN, part 3 (Strange Caller),page160:
“[…] Ben Corvet give me all money I want or I talk!” “Talk?” “S’you know it! I ain’t goin’ . . . .” He choked and fell back.
1997, Nick Barlay, “Four am Monday”, inCurvy Lovebox, London:20/20,→ISBN,page 9:
― Don’t really know ’em no. Not really. Friends of friends. Na mean. / ―S’you don’t know ’em.
2016, Jane Redd, chapter 33, inSolstice,[Lehi, Ut.]: Mirror Press,→ISBN,page257:
“What type of punishments?” / Her green eyes brightened. “Break you hard . . .s’you don’t get any mighty ideas of moving up to no higher level.”
1857, Mrs. C[harles] W[heeler] Denison[i.e.,Mary Andrews Denison], “Jupe Taken to the Coffin-Maker’s House”, inGracie Amber, New York, N.Y.: Sheldon, Blakeman & Co.; Chicago, Ill.: S[amuel] C[hapman] Griggs & Co.,→OCLC, chapter XV (Jupe and the Sailor Boarding-House),page97:
“Hallo! Jupe—s’this you?” he exclaimed—“shew! crying? shew! what’s e’matter, Jupe?”
On his side, knees against his chest, Larry Childs struggled to roll onto his stomach when something kicked his leg. A white-hot ember glowed in the back of his mouth above his tongue, stealing his breath. “What the hell . . .” that voice said. “Oh, Blessed Virgin Mary, Larry,s’that you? What’s wrong?”
^Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997. p. 276.
Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
2
Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
1920,Olindo Guerrini, edited by Zanichelli,Sonetti romagnoli, published1967:
S'aví pazenzia d' lezer ste librett E ch'a sbrucheva i virs in rumagnol A i truvarí zinquanta e piò sunett Ch'av gudrí ch'a farí dal scapariol.
If [you] are patient to read this book and you (can) understand the poetry in Romagnol you will find more than fifty sonnets that will entertain you more than tumbling.
