Expectation? I assume they meant “expedition”
Man comes to the door. Little boy answers.
“Is your mother here.”
“No Ma ain’t here.”
“Ain’t? Where’s your grammar?”
“She’s in the kitchen washin’ dishes and Ma still ain’t here.”
Yeah, I think he meant “expedition”. And I also think he meant, in the next line, “believed” and not “belived”.
I guess it is too much to ask, these days, for so-called journalists to proofread.