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  • "I canna get Robbie Burns 'graun' words oot o 'my heid:' The

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • Strongim mipela long bihainim laik bilong yu long graun, olsem ol i bihainim long heven.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • Strongim mipela long bihainim laik bilong yu long graun, olsem ol i bihainim long heven.

    The marketplace of words 2006

  • Strongim mipela long bihainim laik bilong yu long graun, olsem ol i bihainim long heven.

    Folkspraak and Interlingua 2006

  • Strongim mipela long bihainim laik bilong yu long graun, olsem ol i bihainim long heven.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • I canna jist mind if it was a funeral or a weddin '-- but it was fair graun'.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • Ilka Sabbath day I gaed an 'hearkened till the graun' sermons twa oors at a time, an 'God grippit me thae days, an' He hasna loosened

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • Here's a sweetie for ye; it's a peppermint lozenge, an 'it's a graun' help.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • "It's a graun chance ye're gettin ', to be called to sic a kirk as that," said Wattie Gardner one day.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • Canada's nae sae guid for earls an 'lairds, but it's graun' for puir honest fowk. An 'what's mair, "continued Mrs. Gavin," we didna hae the preachin' i 'the auld country we hae in Canada -- leastwise, no' as graun 'as we used to hae i' the time o 'Doctor Grant.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

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