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    A "book learnin'" vs. Common Sense Look at Just One 9/11 Incident 2008

  • I would do some research, but I'm afraid all of that "learnin '" might make me too much of an elitist.

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  • He was steerin 'aboot, carryin' in soap boxes for seats to the bairns, an 'learnin' up his leed aboot the pictures, an 'orderin' aboot Nathan; ye never heard the like!

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • The least amount o 'learnin' by a flickerin 'pitch pine knot;

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  • These either brought their "learnin" with them from

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

  • Moore, and I have the extraordinary honour of bein 'the trainer at this institution o' learnin 'and Fine Arts, the Fine Arts bein' athletics, football, baseball, hockey _an'_ tinnis.

    Left End Edwards Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

  • Wears the childern plumb out washin ''em an' learnin '

    Calvary Alley Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • In the mountings we was good people, becuz we done the best we could an 'the best any one done; but hyah, we was low-down people becuz we hated the people that had mo' learnin ', mo' land, mo 'money, an' mo 'friends than what we had.

    The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

  • She's a good little thing, though, takin '' er all round, though a bit odd in 'er way, but that comes of bein' in France an 'learnin' music, I expect.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • She's a good little thing, though, takin '' er all round, though a bit odd in 'er way, but that comes of bein' in France an 'learnin' music, I expect.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

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