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Examples
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"Once, w'en I was 'ere before, wot did I find out there but a' ole lot of pork-ribs," said Ginger to me.
THE SPIKE 2010
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A missus kissin 'an' kids clim'in ', an' kettle singin ', all on four poun' ten a month w'en you 'ave a ship, an' four nothin 'w'en you' aven't.
A MAN AND THE ABYSS 2010
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T'other two said they'd be blessed if they do it, an 'they didn't; but I kept wearin' into mine to warm up, you know. An 'then the guardians come, an' t'other chaps got run in for fourteen days, an 'the guardians, w'en they see wot I'd been doin', gives me
THE SPIKE 2010
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An 'w'en' e sees a nice ole gentleman comin 'along the street' e chucks the crust into the drain, an 'borrows the old gent's stick to poke it out.
THE SPIKE 2010
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She had been out of London once in her life, to a place in Essex, twelve miles away, where she had picked fruit for three weeks: An 'I was as brown as a berry w'en I come back.
CORONATION DAY 2010
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An 'I always notices as the blokes as talks about' ow much they can get, w'en they're in the spike can eat my share o 'skilly as well as their bleedin' own.
THE SPIKE 2010
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I can 'ave my beer w'en I like, an' no blessed missus an 'kids a-crying for bread.
A MAN AND THE ABYSS 2010
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So de fox, he put 'is tail out de crack, dat mindered me to cut it off, an' make de track w'en dey all went to supper.
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"Hurry up dar, or I'll gib you forty w'en you gits back."
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May the day come w'en your husband's tuck off, an 'your children's knocked down in your sight, an' your hand is too feeble to save!
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