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When all us bad parents ask teachers 'wot abart mafs'? our wisened kids can be sent home to say 'ow ya gunna make mi do vat'.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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There had been disturbing cries of "What's all this abart?"
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Do you want to 'ear abart my trarsers, or do you not?
Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts Mark Ambient
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I bet my buttons 'e's enj'ying' is 'oneymoon in' is noo clothes, an 'forgotten all abart me an' mine. _ (up stage R.) _
Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts Mark Ambient
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I always knew as there was something wrong abart pore Mr. Janly, and many's the time I've said to 'im,' Mr. Janly, sir, 'I've said,' do take a little something, yer look so pale. '
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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When ther bugles sound ther larst reville you will ever 'ear,' nd ther colonel, whose name is Death, gives the order ter march, you'll have nothink to fear abart, if yer bandoliers are full o 'faith' nd yer rifles are sighted with good works.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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The conductor deposed that he had bin on the point of pushing on, seeing as how he'd hung abart long enough, when he see'd them two gents, the long 'un with the heye-glass (Psmith bowed) and t'other' un, a-legging of it dahn the road towards him, with the other blokes pelting after 'em.
Psmith in the City 1928
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"You 'aint got a fill o' 'bacca abart you, I suppose, sir?" he queried, exploring the inner recesses of his brass tobacco box with a horny forefinger.
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"It's surprisin 'wot some shoregoin' blokes don't know abart th 'Navy, sir," said the burly one with some contempt, chuckling away to himself.
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The chief buffer does the same, and so does Number One, so at six bells, when the sick bay stooard 'ad bin sent by Jimmy the One to tell the doctor as' ow the buoys wus ready for bleedin ', almost all the orficers and abart' arf the ship's company 'ad mustered artside the sick bay under the fo'c'sle to see wot' appened.
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