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This site says:

D'you is a shortened form of 'do you' or 'did you', used in spoken English. ⇒ What d'you say?

It would seem that more British people say like that. Not sure about American.

Am I allowed to use "D'you" in everyday American conversation?

Is this kind of saying popular in America?

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  • Where does the dictionary imply it's British English? Everyone, regardless of their education, pronounces do you that way, how they spell it is different matter. Collins Dictionary is saying that particular spelling is used. One other thing, "Do you" and "D'you" are not sayings or proverbs.
    – Mari-Lou A
    Commented Jan 15, 2017 at 12:35
  • D'you is NOT a shortened form of DID you. First, it's one way to imitate what one hears. A shortened form is: didn't for did not. And D'you is not that. When people speak fast in AmE, one often does /D'you/. It would be found written like that in novels, plays, scenarios. FYI, the past is Didya.
    – Lambie
    Commented Jan 15, 2017 at 15:34
  • In fact, British speakers also say: D'you. Typically AmE is: Doya for do you.
    – Lambie
    Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 16:59

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You can speak that way, and you will be understood by native or experienced English speakers. You wouldn't write it though. Even if you wrote down what a person said, you wouldn't write "d'you" instead of "do you".

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  • Never say never (joke). There is such a thing as written dialogue. So, it could be written in novels, plays and movie scripts.
    – Lambie
    Commented Jan 15, 2017 at 15:31
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In you feel comfortable with using it you can, in the same conversations that you use "gonna", "gotta" and "wanna".

But it makes sense only if you speak fast enough to "need" to mosh your syllables together.

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  • There is nothing that irks me more than hearing a French person speak English who uses wanna and gonna in somewhat non-colloquial sentences. Many English speakers when speaking fast say D'you in perfectly formed sentences and not necessarily with wanna or gonna.
    – Lambie
    Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 16:58
  • @Lambie You're right, and I only use those when the conversation is casual enough, if I have even a slight doubt I absolutely avoid them. But I'll also avoid "D'you" in that case (maybe that's just me, I don't feel comfortable enough with it yet). I'm saying if you are in a conversation so casual that you can use "gonna", you can also use "D''you", but the opposite is not necessarily true.
    – Teleporting Goat
    Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 17:05
  • Ok, I agree with that.
    – Lambie
    Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 20:13

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