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October 19, 2008 at 11:40 am thanx fur correctin dat ID!
Y’know, Ted, there are days - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Kickass43: they wudda had harry correctin their grammar
Danielle Crittenden: The Secret Presidential IMs: Clinton Disappoints His Pupil 2008
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Even better would be if you are learning English, and we can split time in the two languages, correctin each other as need be.
EGC Clambake for August 11, 2007 – “Friends, Parties, and Shared Experience” 2004
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Emissivity is a “correctin factor” for teh difference between blackbody behavior and graybodies.
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There's manners, correctin 'your uncle; a chit o' sixteen that's not left school yet! 'protested Mrs Clay.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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Nothin 'like correctin' errors right off the reel, Dave.
Cowboy Dave Frank V. Webster
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"An 'ye've done all the correctin' ye'll ever do with me."
Peg O' My Heart J. Hartley Manners 1899
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But I wouldn't hurt his feelin's by correctin 'him; for I thought "fur" or "fure," it didn't make much of any difference.
Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881
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This Society was started by the leadin 'men of Jonesville, for the purpose of searchin' out and criticizin 'the affairs of the world, an' so far as possible advisin 'and correctin' the meanderin's an 'wrong-doin's of the universe.
Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881
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He's always correctin 'the guls; I see him take up a book one day, that one of 'em was readin', and when she as't him about it, he said it was rubbage.
Ragged Lady — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878
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