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Examples
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Why Nanse, _ma colleen baun_, what can she want with my stick?
The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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And we are told that it "probably reaches us from Danish baun, a beacon."
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But really the English way of pronouncing baun is beacon; and no living soul can pretend that we left off saying beacon and began saying bone or bon.
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