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Examples
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Is that just some residual southernism from myyouth? pronounce_the_h:
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Is that just some residual southernism from myyouth?
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Seriously, even dyed in the wool backwoods Carolina mountain people republicans are starting see that this dog don't hunt, this coon don't kill, this fart don't stink nice, this (insert random southernism).
Obama Campaign: McCain Attack "Angry And Hyper-Partisan" 2009
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There are a number of photographs of me in my early years, and I was so cute that it is almost Hitler-Jungen creepy: fair-skinned, hair so light that it typically earned the southernism "cotton-top," bright, attentive eyes and a winning smile.
Archive 2008-02-01 James Killus 2008
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There are a number of photographs of me in my early years, and I was so cute that it is almost Hitler-Jungen creepy: fair-skinned, hair so light that it typically earned the southernism "cotton-top," bright, attentive eyes and a winning smile.
Crybaby James Killus 2008
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I wanted to use some sort of southernism in place of “much” but I couldn’t think of how to phrase it properly.
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