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June 2nd, 2008 8: 06 pm ET try again ... spellin 'glitch.
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The next night and the "spellin'-bee" at school No. 5 came on apace together.
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I suppose we shall have some old fogey now who will preach against dancin 'an' spellin'-bees an 'surprise-parties.
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Well, I reckon mabbe folks don't scurry around here quite so lively as they do in some of the bigger towns like Noo York, but there's a tolerable lot goin 'on most every week, church festivals, an' spellin 'bees, an' such.
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But, puttin 'spellin' aside, that's just why I've come to you.
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They played together, they lived together; together they tended deestrick school an 'went huckleberryin'; there wuz huskin's an 'spellin' bees an 'choir meetin's an' skatin 'an' slidin 'down-hill -- oh, the happy times uv youth! an' all those times our boy Cyrus an 'their leetle Lizzie went lovin'ly together!
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Graeme-Graham -- jist twa w'ys o 'spellin' the name putten thegither.
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"Then why doesn't tha, read somethin ', or learn a bit o' spellin '?
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An 'a power o' time it tuk, an 'a power o' spellin 'an' bodaciously wrastlin 'with the alphabit. "
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"Noa, but awm sick o 'spellin', for t'gaffer's allus agate on me becoss aw connot spell
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
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