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  • My favourite Canada Day story involves my nephew franco-Mum/anglo-Dad who proudly told me on that day when he was 10 or 11 years old: "Mon oncle, je suis canadien sans-tiret!"

    Peace, order and good government, eh?: June 2006 Archives 2006

  • Pourquoi y a un tiret entre stephanie et booth dans ton nouveau nom de domaine ?

    Télévision et lancement — Climb to the Stars 2005

  • Pourquoi y a un tiret entre stephanie et booth dans ton nouveau nom de domaine ?

    Télévision et lancement — Climb to the Stars 2005

  • "Maype he don'd pelief we vos goin 'pack here to bury him, und he got tiret uf vaiting for der funerals."

    Frank Merriwell Down South Burt L. Standish 1905

  • "Weel, I wadna be sorry to rist a bit, for I hae tint mysel a'thegither, an 'I'm some tiret," answered Donal.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • Je ne savais même pas qu’un tiret doit être plus long qu’un trait d’union.

    Microsoft gobbledegook 2009

  • Den, zey shtole ze golt Madonna and brings it oop on ze deck; and den, zey get vighting vor ze vigure, and shtab von ze ozers, and dey vas vake me oop mit ze row, vor I vas tiret and vas ashleep in ze boate over ze taffrail. "

    The Island Treasure 1887

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