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Examples
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Effen a man or a 'oman kilt another one den dey wuz branded wid er hot i'on.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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De kitchen ain't no place fer spoons, 'less they is i'on spoons to stir up de batter wif.
Molly Brown's Orchard Home Nell Speed 1895
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Hit's mighty funny unter me how dese folks kin go an 'prognosticate der eckoes inter one er deze yer i'on boxes, an' dar hit'll stay on twel de man
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Hit's mighty funny unter me how dese fokes kin go an 'prognosticate der eckoes inter one er deze yer i'on boxes, an' dar hit'll stay on twel de man comes long an 'tu'ns de handle an' let's de fuss come pilin 'out.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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So I went up the steps and clared away a rose vine what was hanging low down from the i'on pillar of the piazzar, and almost screening the door, and I walked up, I did, and looked in.
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I had my doubts about ghosts and sperrits, and I lost my religion when I cotch our preacher brandin 'one of my dappled crumple-horned hefers with his i'on; but Bedney
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Christmas, when old Marster Tom allus let de niggers have pigs to kill for de feas '; why chile, you should er seen de pot we cooked dem pigs in, it wus so big an' heavy, it took two to put the i'on led on.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Genesis, di'n 'I hyuh you tellin' dis white gemmun take caih his teef -- not bite on no i'on? "
Seventeen 1915
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Genesis, di'n 'I hyuh you tellin' dis white gemmun take caih his teef -- not bite on no i'on? "
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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"But he don't seem to think't the i'on agreed with him, and now he's goin 'in for wood.
Ragged Lady — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878
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