Examples
“HAMLET: "To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them?”
Voice of America: Shakespeare Was a Producer and Actor and, Oh Yes, a Writer
“Fail In case you hadn't noticed, 'tis the season for election ads, many of which skate gingerly around the truth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tis’.
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Whether 'Tis Nobler: Words From Hamlet
nay, 'tis, thee, haste, ho, liegemen, o, hath, holla, entreated, apparition, tush and 104 more...
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essigurken's Words
transubstantiation, pungent, omnipotent, craven, 'tis, saucy, entwine, inextricably, consummation, conglomeration, sepulchre, addendum and 264 more...
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US - national anthem vocabulary
All words and phrases (except the most common articles and prepositions)
For a word frequency analysis see:
air, band, foe, beam, blest, God, banner, battle, battle's~confusion, blood, blow, bomb and 174 more... -
Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
velleities, discombobulated, boggle, breathtaking, enchanting, siren, luscious, moment, fiasco, delirium, darling, ethereal and 215 more...
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Fleretty's list
bequeath, whether, agleam, hence, lest, lithe, blithe, lady, loathe, hollow, fortnight, knave and 23 more...
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Wurzelspeak
Cribbed from Wurzelmania: 'This page contains a dictionary of West Country words and phrases used by Adge Cutler and The Wurzels in their songs, patter, etc., translated into (more or less) English...
bissn't, bist, cassn't, couss, coussn't, dollop, 'ee, 'em, girt, hassn't, i, jollop and 22 more...
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Fun with Aphesis
Words created by removing the beginning of a longer or original word or phrase. See also Fun with Apocopes.
phone, bus, drawing room, til, cello, squire, pike, cute, gypsy, mend, vanish, scapegoat and 22 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 5: Archaic
Those really really old ones...
enow, twelvemonth, eatage, cloathing, whilome, pleasaunce, unperfite, whyleare, faulchion, natheless, 'tis, carle and 4 more...
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Short and Sweet
Five-letter maximun.
dell, knell, glen, dour, cant, chary, segue, quash, onus, cozen, quaff, aver and 59 more...
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Poetic Words
outgrabe, mome raths, borogoves, mimsy, wabe, gimble, gyre, toves, slithy, brillig, twas, camelot and 76 more...
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