Word: wuz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Folks is lots littler now dan what dey wuz in dem days. . . . My grandaddy say dat his great-grandaddy would make two men like him, an' my grandaddy wuz a monst'us big man, dey ain't no two ways 'bout dat. It seems like dat folks is swunk...
August. At the Utah State Prison, Warden J. H. Harris warned his charges not to use the colloquialism "We wuz robbed!" during baseball games. Both umpires, he explained, were doing time for robbery...
Protocol. At the Utah State Prison. Warden J. H. Harris warned his charges not to use the colloquialism, "We wuz robbed!" during baseball games. Both umpires, he explained, were doing time for robbery...
...Hatfields and McCoys (". . . they wuz reckless mountain boys . . .") were discovered by American Magazine to be feuding no more.† Rooming together and working at a Maryland war plant June Hatfield, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, and Susie McCoy, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader Randall McCoy. They visit each other's families without resort to arms, and June plans to marry a real McCoy some...
...throwed a cat betwix them without tetching a hair." Emmy's parents were hillbilly sharecroppers. She was christened Joy May Creasy. Says she: "I started strippin' tobakker when I was eight, I reckon. Summers I chopped out corn and wormed and suckered tobakker. I reckon I allus wuz a show-off." Joy May's schooling lasted two weeks...