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whaten .
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Examples
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Golly, whatten tunket's yon guy in the mackintosh?
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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"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
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'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
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Golly, whatten tunket’s yon guy in the mackintosh?
Ulysses 2003
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