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"Well oive fownd these noyce trayners and they'll be good as nuw once they'm droyed owt, moy soyze too"
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"Well oive fownd these noyce trayners and they'll be good as nuw once they'm droyed owt, moy soyze too"
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"Well oive fownd these noyce trayners and they'll be good as nuw once they'm droyed owt, moy soyze too"
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Reads nothing but about pigs; they'm his only joy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 Various
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It was pretty to hear 'em, for they'm all fine players, though mostly theer music was above my mark; but sometimes they'd get him to play somethin 'by himself, and then 'twas sweet.
Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray
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"Wal, the 'doant; the' luk wusa then thet: they'm bottled up thunder an 'lightnin', an 'ef the' cum down har, they'll chaw ye all ter hash."
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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Lord bless ye! nary one yere'll hurt ye; they'm gentler'n lambs -- ha! ha!
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Lor's! don't let 'em see that you frets to see their backs, or they'll be gettin 'it into their heads next that they'm somebodys and we can't live without' em.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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"Awh! iss I would, seeing they'm so much mine as Eve's, and you doan't know t'other from which."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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"Awh, then, I reckon they'm not come in yet;" and by this time she had recovered herself sufficiently to turn round and answer with indifference.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
CMunk commented on the word they'm
I've just come across this word. From what little research I have done, it looks like a contraction of "they am" used in the Bristol dialect. (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:T9p1H-4MuxsJ:www.thedialectdictionary.com/view/letter/Bristol/7703/+&cd=1&hl=da&ct=clnk&gl=uk)
April 23, 2018