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Examples
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‘Bister Sikes!’ exclaimed Barney, with real or counterfeit joy; ‘cub id, sir; cub id.’
Oliver Twist 2007
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Bister Burds, you bust go to Londod by the next traid.
The Little Nugget 1928
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'Bister Burds, I understood you to -- ah -- say that the scou'drels took their departure without the boy Ford.'
The Little Nugget 1928
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'Bister Burds, what is the expladation of this extraordinary affair?'
The Little Nugget 1928
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'White will accompany you, Bister Burds,' he said doggedly.
The Little Nugget 1928
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'Cub id, Bister Burds,' said my employer, swallowing a lozenge.
The Little Nugget 1928
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I bay be wrodging Bister Ford, but do dot thig so. '
The Little Nugget 1928
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Leicester, Bicester, Cirencester, Gloucester, and Worcester, while at the same time a marked tendency towards elision occurs; for these words are really pronounced as if written Lester, Bister, Cisseter, Gloster, and Wooster.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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BICESTER, commonly pronounced Bister, is thirteen miles by the road from
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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'Bister Sikes!' exclaimed Barney, with real or counterfeit joy; 'cub id, sir; cub id.'
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841
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