Word: jist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think that men came from monkeys. "What was his name, John?" "I have forgott'n, sorr." "Was it Darwin?" "Ah! yes, Dorwhin. Well, this man went to Californy and dug in the ground twenty feet - twenty feet, sorr! and he came upon a skull of a mon that looked jist like a monkey's and thin again jist like a mon's. And so he thought that mon must have come from monkeys. But, belikely the sea came in wan toime and covered up this mon, and that's why they found him there; but he wasn't a monkey...
...sarmon or two jist...
...shure I don't care, but do jist as ye please...