s'pect

From reading your fevered posts, I s'pect you may have a touch of the vapors.

"The most miserable, neurotic and obsessive collection of individuals he had ever met." Ann Althouse 2006

He dreadful angry, and I s'pect some other one near here.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

I don't s'pect them to use spoons, but they needn't sit down in it.

Princess Polly's Playmates Amy Brooks

"About that there doc -- d'you s'pect he savvys his business?"

The Gold Girl 1921

Well, I s'pect you have everything you want, don't you?

Melbourne House 1907

"I s'pect he's crying his eyes out," she said, with a sniff.

Deep Waters, the Entire Collection 1903

"I s'pect he's crying his eyes out," she said, with a sniff.

The Convert Deep Waters, Part 5. 1903

"Never having had a child about, I s'pect likely they may," said

A Daughter of the Land Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

"I s'pect she's gone somewhere to clean herself," said Dorothy.

The Magic of Oz 1887

"Bet his pa's a wicked man!" said the milk-faced boy, in a dreamy, speculative way -- "s'pect he's a drunkard, er somepin '!"

The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10 1883