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  • adverb dialectal here
  • verb dialectal hear

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Examples

  • Dat's right, Miss Euginny, yo 'hyar's des es dry es I kin git it. "

    The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • "An 'hyar's the track o' the mare -- the yeller mustang as war rid by the saynorita.

    The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

  • An 'hyar's another o' the same, as they say in the Psalms o 'Davit. "

    The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

  • Howsumever they cain't cum t 'Bent's no more, cuz tain't hyar.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • "We all got a say hyar, jest as much as any high-an'-mighty lime-juice sailor-oh, beg pardon, Captain Comber!"

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • "Richey hyar sez he's onsartin if you'll make a wagon-captain."

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Readers of frontier travellers such as Ruxton, Marcy, Garrard, and Parkman, and of contemporary novelists like Mayne Reid and Ballantyne, will be familiar with the dialect; apart from its many cant phrases, it had its peculiarities of pronunciation-principally the reduction of the "ai" and "ee" vowels to "ah", as in bar (bear), thar (there) hyar (here), and har (hair).

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Anyhow, bite off a chaw o' tabaccy, have a sip o' some of this hyar corn likker, dig inta some of maw's possum pie, and enjoy some good old fashioned, down-home HILLBILLY COMICS:

    Hillbilly Comics! Brian Hughes 2009

  • Anyhow, bite off a chaw o' tabaccy, have a sip o' some of this hyar corn likker, dig inta some of maw's possum pie, and enjoy some good old fashioned, down-home HILLBILLY COMICS:

    Archive 2009-02-01 Brian Hughes 2009

  • Or maybe just maybe he'll demand the State Legislature strike down that false invasive 1913 anti-miscegenation statute, the one that prevents out of state gay couples from gettin' hitched hyar?

    The Chimes at Midnight 2007

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