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Examples
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"And I'm the pertickler party that hocus-pocused 'em."
CHAPTER 22 2010
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November 12, 2008 at 1:41 am loozin it kompleetly maekin lief difikult fer da hek uvit no pertickler reezun jus badnes odeyus mornin?
Waitaminnit! If u - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Anyhow, you gev me a proper sneezer, a most pertickler hahnsome socdolager, I vum!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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But no -- I'm in favour of Free Trade in Waiters as in Wine, and I shoud think that, in this pertickler case, his hobstinacy brings its own punishment.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 Various
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'Very pertickler,' she retorted in a muffled voice.
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I hev known men that was so te'ble pertickler allers to save the Company, that nuthin 'ever did, n' ever could happen.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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For th 'ole Oueen's-arm hez this pertickler merit, --
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_ I ain't not a pertickler good speller myself, but I reely shoud be artily ashamed of sich a blunder as that.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891 Various
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He used to interdooce 'em smooth ez ile athout sayin 'nothin' in pertickler an 'I misdoubt he didn't set so much by the sec'nd Ceres as wut he done by the Fust, fact, he let on onct thet his mine misgive him of a sort of fallin' off in spots.
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If old Vanderbilt hadn't a-been persevering in his pertickler kind uv dig-gin ', whar would he be to-day?
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor
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