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Word: yers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wottadamshame--Quit yer blubberin' there O'Shame! Ye'll disgrace me Court, I'tell ye. Fwhy can't ye set down 'n enjoy the pitchers in the Gazette like a dacent, self-respectin' policeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...Shame -- Yer Honor, it's more 'n a dacent, self-respectin' policeman kin shtand, the way they're pokin fun at the Irish. Cast yer eye at this. (Pulls a Lampoon of April 15 out of his pooket Reads:) Religion an shquash service. Shall the Cathedral uv Sint Archibald th' Iguostic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...could with impunity quiz, as it were, the Queen- to use a vulgarism, get the best of her. On one occasion, at dinner at Windsor, when Lord Fife was mopping up his soup with much noise, he suddenly paused, looked up and said in his very broad Scotch: 'Yer Majesty will be pleased to hear that I hae given up brandy and sodas!' 'I'm glad to hear it, Lord Fife,' said the Queen. 'I'm sure you'll be better for it.' 'Thank you, ma'am, I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW BOOK: Small Talk | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare and the raised eyebrow of regenerated America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH FOR ALL | 11/2/1923 | See Source »

...What's wrang wi' ye, Jock ?" asked the groomsman. " Yer face is like chalk. Hae yet lost ony thing? Hae ye lost the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Unrecorded by Hansard* | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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