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  • Ai tink tea comes eethr befour dinner oar aftr dinner, depends on wthr ur frum teh nort or sowt.

    Trixy Hobbitses - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • They sowt to follow him & after 3 paces beheld him again & beheld too a cave mowth lyke a mine that men have made, which sure the illvsione was to conceal.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

  • Flettcher saith belyke the sacke was som draughte as thatte devised by Paracelsvs to make a manne yonge again, & as proofe of this tells me it be knowen that Spayne hath sowt suche in the natural waiters of Florida, the which I knew afore, but I told him nott, onely that he should speak noe carelesse word therof.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

  • Cheerful along with me; retired when others is by; fond of going any distance fur to teach a child, or fur to tend a sick person, or fur to do some kindness tow'rds a young girl's wedding (and she's done a many, but has never seen one); fondly loving of her uncle; patient; liked by young and old; sowt out by all that has any trouble.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • But when aw wakken'd aw sowt up an 'daan, but nowhear could aw find th' valentine.

    Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

  • Aw'm gien to understand 'at a owd-fashioned kursmiss wor one whear iverything we admire an' think comfortable wor despised, an 'iverything we have a fear on wor sowt after.

    Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

  • Cheerful along with me; retired when others is by; fond of going any distance fur to teach a child, or fur to tend a sick person, or fur to do some kindness tow'rds a young girl's wedding (and she's done a many, but has never seen one); fondly loving of her uncle; patient; liked by young and old; sowt out by all that has any trouble.

    David Copperfield 1850

  • Cheerful along with me; retired when others is by; fond of going any distance fur to teach a child, or fur to tend a sick person, or fur to do some kindness tow'rds a young girl's wedding (and she's done a many, but has never seen one); fondly loving of her uncle; patient; liked by young and old; sowt out by all that has any trouble.

    David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841

  • Cheerful along with me; retired when others is by; fond of going any distance fur to teach a child, or fur to tend a sick person, or fur to do some kindness tow’rds a young girl’s wedding (and she’s done a many, but has never seen one); fondly loving of her uncle; patient; liked by young and old; sowt out by all that has any trouble.

    David Copperfield 2007

  • a relish to what's moor appreciated, tho less sowt after.

    Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877

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