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'Aw dooan't care whether it's sweet or saar, it'll have to be etten, soa tha'd better set to an' salt it, for ther isn't another aance o 'mait comes into this haase till that's etten.'
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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'Well, then, to be honest, aw dooan't think this will suit yo, for aw'm blessed if aw think ther can be much life left i' this considerin what it's let aght sin aw bowt it.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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"Yo dooan't meean to say shoo's yor neese sewerly."
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Nah, dooan't goa raand th 'corners, but come straight to th' point.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Whether they lost onny sleep ovver it aw dooan't know, but next mornin Angelina sed shoo'd "had its voice ringin in her ears all th 'neet, an shoo thowt shoo'd nivver get ovver th' loss on it."
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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"Aw dooan't know, unless its i'th trunk still, let's hev a look for it."
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Nah, dooan't touch mi thimel or needle an threead;
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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But dooan't be deceived, for yo're nooan aght o 'danger,
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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"Louisa, dooan't yo 'remember when mother wor deein, shoo sed ther wor a little tin box i' her trunk, an at if ivver we wor i 'onny trouble we wor to look inside ov it."
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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What tuk place aw dooan't exactly know, but when they coom aght Chairley lukt varry warm, an th 'maister had a grin on his face at wor a gooid sign.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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