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  • Does Anon, in his racism, think “dem Blacks' otta be hurt, cuz dey's Black”?

    CSK: Redux Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • Republicans can run around saying "dey's all happy 'roun' heah and ain't nuttin to look at but dem cheefuh folks workin in de fields", but we're still bitter.

    Obama On Clinton's Attacks: "Shame On Her" 2009

  • We were walking down Union Street the other day talking about cars (and which ones were red) when she suddenly said "dey's a baby, dey's a baby, in Auntie Dana's belly."

    month of sundays 2006

  • We were walking down Union Street the other day talking about cars (and which ones were red) when she suddenly said "dey's a baby, dey's a baby, in Auntie Dana's belly."

    deadhead sticker on a cadillac 2006

  • Carrying them to his mistress, he hands them to her, saying, "Dey's de fust ones, Miss 'Titia -- dey's late, wery late, dis year, but I' lowed you'd like 'em, bein's you anniwusity day, t 'stick in you' har."

    Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

  • Miss 'Titia spoke 'bout de quarters, how dey's changed, an' de house, too.

    Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

  • But nemmine, I's gwine to happen aroun 'dah one o' dese days en let on dat I reckon he wants to print a chillen's fingers ag'in; en if HE don't notice dey's changed, I bound dey ain't nobody gwine to notice it, en den I's safe, sho '.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • When I takes de chillen out to git de air, de minute I's roun 'de corner I's gwine to gaum dey mouths all roun' wid jam, den dey can't nobody notice dey's changed.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • "Ole Missus, de house of plum 'jam full o' people, en dey's jes a-spi'lin 'to see de gen'lemen!"

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • Chambers expostulated, and said, "But, Marse Tom, dey's too many of 'em -- dey's --"

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

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