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The _MS. _ is somewhat different -- "Rommany" instead of _Roman_, and the last line, "If you will share my lot with me".
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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There is also a chapter containing in Rommany and English a very characteristic letter from a full-blood Gipsy to a relative, which was dictated to me, and which gives a sketch of the leading incidents of Gipsy lifetrading in horses, fortune-telling, and cock-shying.
languagehat.com: THE ENGLISH GYPSIES AND THEIR LANGUAGE. 2005
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‘I say, brother, tell me one thing, and look me in the face — there — do you speak Rommany?’
Lavengro 2004
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Rommany, “Do so and so,” says I; which the farming man hearing, asks what we are talking about.
Lavengro 2004
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The Rommany gryengroes had not then all gone to America, and those who know their
Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" James Blyth
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She was said to be of Rommany blood-royal, and was actually disowned by her tribe for _her mésalliance_.
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George Borrow tells us that when preaching in Rommany to a congregation of Gypsies he felt highly flattered by the patient attention of his hearers, till he happened to notice that they all had their eyes fixed in a diabolical squint.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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But it is with the poor "Rommany girl," not with the heiress of Burleigh Grange, that we have to do.
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Not with the ragged nondescripts of the streets, but the poetic vagabonds of the fields -- the Rommany Chals -- the
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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_Rommany_ is the Gypsy name for a Gypsy, and this is referred to the Sanscrit _Rama_, man, by one author, and by others to the Coptic _Rom_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various
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