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When quoting someone, is it proper to change gotta to got to . . . If "gotta" is equivalent to "got to," and "gonna" is equivalent to "going to," adjusting the spelling is allowed, but further alteration for grammar ("have got to" instead of "got to") isn't Meanwhile, if gotta is important to capture the "tone or sense of place," use it unchanged
expressions - How to use get to and got to? - English Language . . . In such spoken contexts, this got to is typically pronounced as gotta, and in writing it is often transcribed as such (see e g here) Thus, in spoken language, the two senses of got to are usually pronounced differently and so there is normally no confusion
Exact meaning of You must be kidding? The phrase "got to be joking" (not included in the above Ngram graph), by the way, seems to be less common than any of the four phrases in this Ngram graph—between half and two-thirds as common as "must be kidding" and "gotta be kidding" in the period between 2000 and 2007
“kinda”, “sorta”, “coulda”, “shoulda”, “lotta”, “oughta”, “betcha . . . Wikipedia Gonna, gotta and wanna are not contractions Contractions are shortenings like aren’t and can’t The missing letters have been replaced by an apostrophe, and the original words are discernible in the contraction Contractions are acceptable in all but the most formal writing Here are a few standard contractions: aren’t = are
pronouns - What is the difference between Us girls gotta stick . . . The phrase "gotta stick together" is a colloquialism and it is something of a register clash to hear it yoked with the "correct" "We girls" Compare: "It's me" vs "It is I" Here's a bit of dialog from a 1922 novel entitled The Secret Toll by Paul and Mabel Thorne, in a chapter called "Friends of the Poor": "I'll tell you, Mister," said Green