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I wouldn't be here if it wuzn't fo' mah' bench coach.

Continuing the picnic table theme... Ann Althouse 2009

Now we can sing an old James classic, "fuzzy wuzzy wuz a bear, fuzzy wuzzy had no hair, fuzzy wuzzy wuzn't fuzzy wuz he?"

Archive 2007-05-01 James Williams 2007

We sometimes went ter de neighborhood affairs if'n we wuz good, but if we wuzn't an 'didn't git a pass de patter-rollers would shore git us.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various

Dar wuzn't many games den, case nobody ain't had no time fer 'em.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various

My mammy belonged ter Tom Edward Gaskin an 'she wuzn't half fed.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various

We wuzn't happy at de surrender an 'we cussed ole Abraham Lincoln all ober de place.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various

I wuzn't old enough ter know much, but I does 'member how de fambly hid all de valuables 'fore de Yankees come, an' dat Marster Moses in pickin 'up de big brass andirons hurt his back an' dey said dat dat wuz de cause of his death a little while atterwards.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various

I wuzn't converted unduh de Holiness preachment uh James Foust but duh de revival of Reverend William Scales.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various

De Abernathy's wuzn't good ter us, we got very little ter eat, nothin 'ter wear an' a whole lot o 'whuppin's.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various

Massa ain't 'lowed no patterollers on his place, but one time when he wuzn't ter home my mammy sent me an' Caroline ter de nex 'door house fer something an' de patterollers got us.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various