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• “The 1789 quotation is from Webster, who takes darn as in darn sweet to be descended from the older word dern, originally meaning”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2

• “Some kind of dern Noah, gathering up critters two by two? sophisticated Joe Walker asked.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Berrybender Narratives

• “I longs to jest call the dern'd fellow out into the bushes, and ax him for a showing of his pockets. ”

  The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.

• “He dismissed the idea that raising taxes alone might help erase the deficit, saying "raising taxes doesn't do a dern thing" to address health care costs that are projected to be a big driver of future fiscal problems.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Bowles Predicts Support for Deficit Deal

• “However, Republicans are still upset about Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Clinton, Woodstock, the internet, paying ANY taxes, not having enough guns, Obama's first presidential order to ban all guns, their definition of Socialism being at odds with the actual definition and that that dern rap Music.”

  Honore dismisses talk of Senate run

• “One would think he would've been traumatized but the dern thing decided he liked it.”

  Cat in a Freezer for 19 Hours » E-Mail

• “This time more than in his 2002 campaign Barnes is much more engaged in what you call retail fund raising, and doing a dern good job so far.”

  The Sounds of Ka-Ching coming from the Barnes HQ (Blog for Democracy)

• “Libraries can be confusing places — what with all those dern ideas and books and things.”

  Weekend Edition: 2-20 « A Progressive on the Prairie

• “He should also have to demonstrate his "right stuff" by sampling the urinator-recylater water too & flavored with Tang for the prez (gosh, that's if they ever get that dern thing to work right - can't believe the cosmonauts would really want to "borrow" the US can, probably not the "reclaimed" water though)!”

  NASA Faces Showdown With Colbert Nation - NASA Watch

• “Now we will have the type of mo dern education space designed specifically for a new type of learning environment and curriculum," says Lee Goldman, the dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine and executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences at Columbia University.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Facelift for Doctor's Alma Mater

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