(nonstandard) had to.
1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
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(North America, nonstandard) had (used in conditional statements; compare had've).
: Told him I hadda be on the bus for work and he rode with me.
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(nonstandard) had a.
If I hadda known, I wouldn't've gone.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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