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Thus, one says, in American, I take thisn or thisn is mine, but one never says I take thisn hat or thisn dog is mine.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun Henry Louis 1921
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He's no call to let the likes o 'you carry things o' thisn's. "
Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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You have betrayed a pseudonym, but I think thisn picture may have been worth it.
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As you know Conan very few things translate well to the Big Screen and I'm not going to bother with thisn but we did have fun yelling at the TV occasionally, like I do with the Apprentice really.
Show us the money Carrie Ms Robinson 2008
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June 1st, 2006 at 5:47 pm laffter is the best cure. thankee fer reckomendin thisn. i woodnt wonta miss it.
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The origin of the demonstratives of the thisn-group is plain: they are degenerate forms of this-one, that-one, etc., just as none is a degenerate composition form of no (t) - one.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun Henry Louis 1921
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The adverb will then sink to the estate of a mere inflectional particle, as one has done in the absolutes of the thisn-group.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun Henry Louis 1921
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He will have NO chance on the national stage with thisn type of bcakground.
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I shall be fain to think a summut of ee, now you can flamgudgin 'em a thisn.
Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777
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Yosha! thisn be a lot betta than theat ole catrina! hidden damage??
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