In UK English, they have turned a contraction into an even-shorter contraction.
The word in''t is a further contraction of isn't. Not sure of the actual spelling of this; first heard on the Chris Moyles Show or maybe Coronation Street.
Combined with some other delicious idiomatic grammar, you get sentences like
It in''t in t'tin.
Say that 3 times fast, then translate into US English.
And you thought in''t was a datatype....
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