Word: aboot
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Every time someone ends a sentence with “Eh?” or pronounces “about” as “aboot,” take a shot. You’ll need about three handles of hard liquor per player if you intend on lasting through the entire broadcast...
...also quite a Canadian, when his roommates want to know what's all the fuss aboot, ey?, Dominic has been known to defend his northern country unfailingly...
...George L. Clarke, professor of Biology; John H. Coates, assistant professor of Mathematics; William D. Cochran, assistant clinical professor of Pediatrics; Albert M. Craig, professor of History; A. Dalgarno, professor of Astronomy; Bernard D. Davis, professor of Bacterial Physiology; John T. Edsall, professor of Bio-chemistry; Howard W. Emmons, Aboot and James Lawrence Professor of Engmeeting...
Obstinacy. The third Marquis of Salisbury, father of Lord Robert Cecil, once made a speech at Oxford, in which he referred to his countrymen as the "English." The speech was interrupted by loud cries of "British!" "What aboot the Scots!" But Salisbury went doggedly ahead and continued to say "English." In the same spirit France continues her policy in the Ruhr. She pays no heed to the economic consequences of her occupation of Germany's great industrial area, and, as obstinate as was the Marquis of Salisbury in saying "English," France is obstinate in believing that she will...
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