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Examples
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En Chloe showed 'im how ter git unner de house, en w'en he had put de cunjuh-doll on de sill he went 'long back ter de qua'ters -- en des waited.
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So she fotch out er bottle wid some cunjuh medicine in it, en po'd some out in a go'd fer
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Peggy wuz a free 'oman, en he wuz 'feard she'd cunjuh him.
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En Chloe showed 'im how ter git unner de house, en w'en he had put de cunjuh-doll on de sill he went 'long back ter de qua'ters -- en des waited.
Hot-Foot Hannibal 1899
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So she fotch out er bottle wid some cunjuh medicine in it, en po'd some out in a go'd fer Henry ter drink.
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She could wuk de mos 'powerfulles' kind er goopher, -- could make people hab fits er rheumatiz, er make 'em des dwinel away en die; en dey say she went out ridin 'de niggers at night, for she wuz a witch' sides bein 'a cunjuh
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Dey 'uz a cunjuh' ooman livin 'down mongs' de free niggers on de Wim'l'ton Road, en all de darkies fum Rockfish ter Beaver Crick wuz feared uv her.
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She could wuk de mos 'powerfulles' kind er goopher, -- could make people hab fits er rheumatiz, er make 'em des dwinel away en die; en dey say she went out ridin 'de niggers at night, for she wuz a witch' sides bein 'a cunjuh' ooman.
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"'I ain' goophered nobody, ner done no cunjuh-wuk fer fifteen yer er mo; en w'en I got religion I made up my mine I wouldn 'wuk no mo' goopher.
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"'I ain' goophered nobody, ner done no cunjuh-wuk fer fifteen yer er mo; en w'en I got religion I made up my mine I wouldn 'wuk no mo' goopher.
Po' Sandy 1888
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