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  • pronoun Eye dialect spelling of them.

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Examples

  • "I say, my little darlint," said he, winking, and touching her lightly under the ribs with his outstretched palm, "my little _moochacha_ -- that's what they call thim -- isn't it, Raowl?"

    The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850

  • "Do you call thim two sods, Jack Laniran? why, 'tis only one long one broke in the middle; but you must make it up tomorrow.

    The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

  • 'What's the shtuff growin' out there, 'says I,' wid the dark red leaves to it, or maybe ye'd call thim purple? '

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 Various

  • Nachrally they can't tear off very far or they wudden't hear th 'whistle whin it blew to call thim back.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Th 'throuble with th' race we're bringin 'up is that th' fair sect, as Shakespeare calls thim, lacks inthrest in their jooty to their husbands.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Ye cudden't make Americans iv thim if ye called thim all

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • They haven't th 'right to make laws, but they have th' priv'lege iv breakin 'thim, which is betther.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • All th 'pathrites an', as th 'pa-apers call thim, th' high-priests iv this here sacred rite, ar-re smokin 'th' best seegars that th 'token money iv our counthry can buy.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • 'Ah, love!' she says, 'recall thim happy goolden days iv our coortship, whin we walked th' counthry lane in th 'light iv th' moon, 'she says,' an hurl yer maulies into his hoops, 'she says.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Think iv that gran 'procission iv lithry men, -- Tinnyson an' Longfellow an 'Bill Nye an' Ella Wheeler Wilcox an 'Tim Scanlan an' -- an 'I can't name thim all: they're too manny.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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