Word: gits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break your ass. Hard. So you take it a step at a time, and don't look back until you finished the trail and it's time to digest some food. Look over your shoulder too early and you'll see a great gray blur and you'll git too dizzy too quick and fall 300 feet to the icy ground...
...Hahvahd Yahd") but they still sound, well, like Boston cops. Sayles also captures the peculiar accents of Appalachia, especially the banter of men who work hard, as when one tells another, "You're so ugly you have to tie a pork chop around your neck just to git the dawg to play with...
Come on an' join our convoy, Ain't nothin' gonna git in our way. We gonna roll this truckin' convoy, Across the U.S.A...
...there has been no trouble involving Jews and Arabs at Kaddum, an 18-month-old settlement of 200 Israelis near Nablus that overlooks two Palestinian villages, Git and Kaffar Kaddum. There is little contact between the communities. Living inside a guarded, wire-fenced military compound, the settlers are completely isolated from their neighbors. Says Ze'ev Saffer, who runs Kaddum's drugstore: "We do not buy supplies from them because they want everything in cash and are not ready to give us credit." The Arabs, for their part, are hostile and suspicious. "They are not farmers," one told...
renounced for rational renderings of them in modern terms; we read The Grapes of Wrath instead of King Arthur because we can understand a character who blurts, "Well, me and Aggie Wainwright, we figgers to git married we are an' they ain't nobody can stop us!," better than one who exclaims "dayle I sholde have kyssed the...sispyte of Quene Gwenyver." The first is immediate, the second quaint...