SPECT

Historical Examples

• Laws, Missis, I 's used to whippin'; I spects it's good for me.

  Uncle Tom's Cabin

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• "I 'spects we was, Massa Tom," was the colored man's answer.

  Tom Swift and his Wireless Message

  Victor Appleton

• But them Ku Kluxers kept on atter 'em twels't they larned they jus got to be good effen they 'spects to stay round here.

  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1

  Work Projects Administration

• If they'd let us go out lak we always wanted to, Ah don't 'spects we'd a-done it, 'cause we wuz too skeered.

  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1

  Work Projects Administration

• Mind you, I was just a boy fourteen, I 'spects, and her a woman twenty-five then.

  Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1

  Various