ernuff

• “Ther crack is big ernuff ter put yer finger in, but Unc 'Fletch doesn't do no such fool trick ez that.”

  Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur

• “Well, stranger, so long ez yer kind ernuff ter inquire, I'll tell yer.”

  Ted Strong's Motor Car

• “Wade an Moss Teele an uthers air hungry ter git er bite at ther public grip, so they throw out bait fer yo uns ter nibble; an yer air fools ernuff ter nibble.”

  Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.

• “Dey didn't 'pear ter be nuffin de matter wid 'im,' cep'n de rheumatiz, but his strenk des dwinel 'away' tel he didn 'hab ernuff lef' ter draw his bref.”

  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue

• “But she wanted ter turn 'im back long ernuff fer ter' splain ter 'im dat she hadn' went off a-purpose, en lef '' im ter be chop 'down en sawed up.”

  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue

• “En egg's er wishwashy creeter es ain 'got ernuff tase er its own ter stan' alont widout salt," he remarked contemptuously; after which he grew hospitable.”

  The Voice of the People

• “You knows w'at I'm talkin 'about, Mis' Molly; you knows well ernuff I'm talkin 'about dat fine mule an' kyart an 'harness over dere in my stable.”

  The House Behind the Cedars

• “You don 'b'long ter him no mo'; you're free, an 'ain' got sense ernuff ter know it.”

  The House Behind the Cedars

• “Huh, an 'you oughter hab ernuff by dis time ter bury bof o' us.”

  The Starbucks

• “It 'u'd all be well ernuff, Mis' Flannigan, ef I had n 'met you; but I don' know whar I 's ter fin 'a colored lady w'at' ll begin ter suit me after habbin 'libbed in de same house wid you.”

  The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays

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