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Word: yers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...readin yer 8 moist Havurd poets for de foist time an on de level guy its de woist hokum I ever seen. Theys each one twict as bad as the rest. Its lousy dats the woid lousy. Over the radio from 33rd Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/22/1923 | See Source »

...surprise comes when one sees in what quantities the Middle Western States send their native sons eastward to lose their "Hoo-is-yer" tendencies in a "Hawvaad" accent and a battered brown hat. Ohio with over a hundred enrolled almost ties Pennsylvania; Illinois is within one man of nearby Connecticut; Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana range from thirteen to thirty. It is also enlightening to see that the state of California sends thirty-one students across the continent and that Colorado, now fattone the purse of the of the railroad with a delegation of seventeen. Only the southern states apparently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAST IS WEST | 11/23/1922 | See Source »

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