...she'll be there if she kin.

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Howie Newsome: My wife says to tell you we both hope they'll be very happy, Mrs. Gibbs. Know they will.
Mrs. Gibbs: Thanks a lot, Howie. Tell your wife I hope she gits there to the wedding.
Howie Newsome: Yes, she'll be there; she'll be there if she kin.

(Thornton Wilder, Our Town, act II)

How is gits and kin pronounced?
 
Indeed, these two forms are not recognised English words. They are attempts to transcribe dialect forms of standard English get and can.
 
It's set in New Hampshire according to Wikipedia, so that is presumably the dialect.
 
The g in gits is hard - as in gifts.
 
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