To be honest I think that would probably work best as: "this truth is so well fixed in t'minds of surrounding families" Simply drop the second definite articl

To be honest I think that would probably work best as: "this truth is so well fixed in t'minds of surrounding families" Simply drop the second definite article because it is redundant. Actually you could drop the first one as well. I can hear it in a generic North England accent and "in t'minds" would actually sound more like "int minds" but trying to run the word "of" into "t'" is a bit harder so it would probably be dropped entirely. I speak RP English with a touch of Mummerset ...