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  • And then one marches along this second jasse and one comes to yet another gorge and climbs up just as one did the two others, through a chasm where there will be a little waterfall or a large one, and one finds at the top the smallest and most lonely of the jasses.

    Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • In Holland, the cod-liver-oil drinker would say jasses or jakkes or ajakkes, the bug squasher bah.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3 1976

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