Word: williamsboig
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...ball, a spectator jumped up on the bleachers and shouted out, "Hurt is hoyt!" Over the years, as they grew more prosperous, New York's Irish scattered into the affluent suburbs. Blacks and Puerto Ricans have all but taken over such areas as Williamsburg (formerly Williamsboig) and Greenpoint (Greenpernt) in northern Brooklyn, where Brooklynese was born. At the same time, generations of Brooklyn schoolteachers struggled more or less successfully to hammer normal English into their pupils' heads...
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