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  • I am greatly fond of my Dutch-Michigander husband and in-laws and those of their Dutch-Michigander friends and associates I have met, but if it is true as they say in Grand Rapids that if y'ain't Dutch, y'ain't much, I am, in fact, not much.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway truepenny 2009

  • Tell yer friends t' play, if y'ain't scared of t'competition!

    February 2nd, 2009 madkestrel 2009

  • "But y'ain't got nothin 'to buy books," was suggested.

    "Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues Wade C. Smith

  • "When y'ain't freezin 'ye're burnin' up, an 'that's what happens in hell!"

    Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse

  • It's an awful disgrace y'know, to be gettin 'presents when y'ain't got none to give back.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • "When I kin git up an appetite for that sort of vittles, I'll go shares with you, ef y'ain't got no objection!"

    Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • Moreover, ye may's well realize y'ain't _popular_ 'round these parts; an' first thing, when I wasn't lookin ', somebody'd be a-puttin' somethin 'onhealthy into yer vittles, partner!

    Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • "Shin out of this, whatever y'are, we don't contrack to carry no imps on this line -- Well, if ever I-- Tommy, old man, it's all right, y'ain't got 'em this time -- 'ere's yer imp!"

    Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers F. Anstey 1895

  • Not that y'ain't 'andsome -- far be it from me to say as you ain't -- but Muster Pendle -- well, that's a different matter.'

    The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895

  • Gentlemen mostly thinks a sight of Jen's looks; an 'it ain't no harm as I knows on to kiss a tidy girl, if y'ain't married, or th' missus don't object. '

    A Dozen Ways Of Love Lily Dougall 1890

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