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Word: swallering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I read 'em, I jump up, I did, an' durn near swaller'd my quid o' baccy. Seems like them college fellers has it in real bar fer Joe M'Carthy, 'Course, when I think o' some o' th' things Joe says 'bout Pussy an' commie-coodlin' at Harvard, can't say as I blame 'em. An' th' way th' Sen'tor wuz feudin' with thet army feller (heard that one over in th' ray-dee-o), I kin git pretty damn well het up m'self...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VARMINT IN THE VERNACULAR | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

...Englanders do pretty much the same thing with r's. They say winder for window, Banner for Hannah, piazzer, Noar, chawrk and dawrg, James Russell Lowell is another case in point: "A mournful providence fashioned us holler," wrote the poet, "on purpose that we might our principles swaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Defense of Brooklyn | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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