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  • See whaten.

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  • Golly, whatten tunket's yon guy in the mackintosh?

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • "Well! I'd got a trace of my child -- the missus thought she'd gone to th 'workhouse to be nursed; and there I went -- and there, sure enough, she had been -- and they'd turned her out as she were strong, and told her she were young enough to work -- but whatten kind o' work would be open to her, lad, and her baby to keep?"

    Lizzie Leigh Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • 'And them that pays yo', dun they tell yo 'whatten to do, or whatten not to do wi' the money they gives you in just payment for your pains -- in fair exchange like? '

    North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Golly, whatten tunket’s yon guy in the mackintosh?

    Ulysses 2003

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