A: Isn't London full of tourists these days? ˈɪznt| lᴧndən fʊl əv `tʊərɪst ðiːz deɪz. [1] B: Mm. You're telling me. There's more of them than English people. mː. jɔː `telɪŋ `miː. `ðɛəz mɔːr əv `ˏðem | ðən `ɪŋglɪʃ piːpl. [2]A: In the summer it seems so. ɪn ðə `sᴧmər ɪt ˏsiːm səʊ. [3] B: Yes. In August I was looking for some street in South jes. ɪn `ɔːgəst |aɪ wz `lʊkɪŋ fə sᴧm striːt | ɪn saʊθ Kensington and I asked four people in succession. `ˏkenzɪŋtən | ən aɪ ɑːsk ˈfɔː ˈpiːpl ɪn səkˎseʃn Three of them didnt speak English. `θriː əv ˏðm | ˈdɪdn spiːk `ɪŋglɪʃ. [4] A: Ye gods! ˈjiː ˏˎgɒdz.[5] B: And the fourth did, | but he was from Germany. ən ðə `fɔːθ ˏdɪd, |ˈbət ˏhiː wz frm `ʤɜːməni.[6] A: Did he tell you where to go? ˈdɪd i tel ju weə tə `ˏgəʊ.[7] B: Oh, yes! Knew London better than I did. ́`əʊ, `jes. ˎnjuː `ˏlᴧndᴧn |ˈbetə ðən ́`aɪ dɪd.[8] A: Tell you one really good thing about all these tourists. ˈtel ju ˈwᴧn | ˈrɪəli ˎgʊd θɪŋ əbaʊt ɔːl ðiːz ˏtʊərɪsts [9] B: What? `wɒt [10] A: There's no off-season in the theatre any more. ˈðez nəʊ `ɒf ˏsiːzn | ɪn ðə `θɪətər eni mɔː. [11] B: No. They laugh in some funny places though, don't they. ˎˏnəʊ. | ðeɪ `lɑːf ɪn sm fᴧni ˏpleɪsɪz ðəʊ, `dəʊnt ðeɪ [12] A: Yes. `jes. [13] [More laughter] Notes: In turn 1 it's completely normal for a speaker to omit the final plural /s/ of a word ending -st. In turn 3 there's only one /s/ which can't necessarily be said to belong more to the end of seems than the beginning of so. In turn 4 the final consonant of ask seems to be unclear. If we think it's /k/ there's been an elision of final /t/; if it's /t/ then it's quite normal for the past of ask to be /ɑːst/ with elision of /k/. In turn 10 the omission of the first personal pronoun 'I' before a verb (here 'tell') is common in very colloquial speech. In turn 11 the weakform of there's produced by shortening of the vowel to /e/ isn't very unusual despite the fact that none of the dictionaries etc include it. Very usually heard in the sentence "They're off", exclaimed when a horse race starts, is another such unlisted weakform.