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Examples
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'Aw durnd know as onybody feels it but thisel, lad,' replied his mother; 'but thaa con go i' th 'garden, if thaa wants to cool a bit.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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She's aye fair to a 'body, an' never thinks ill o 'onybody' at says the trowth -- whan it's no for contrariness.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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I keep the straight road, and just beck if onybody speaks to me ceevilly, and answers naebody with the tong but women of my ain sect.
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'But your father war Yorkshire, which maks ye a bit Yorkshire too; and onybody may see ye're akin to us, ye're so keen o' making brass, and getting forrards. '
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"I've never telt onybody except yoursel '," he said, hurt at her seeming want of interest, and feeling that what he was going to say was less manly than he intended it to be.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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"But you said jist the noo, that you sometimes thocht you wadna marry onybody else?"
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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I sometimes think yet that I'll never marry onybody else.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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He talked away a wee while an 'then put up a prayer; but there was nae consolation in't for onybody.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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I ken it wadna be richt, an 'you munna ask me ony mair; for though I said that I sometimes thocht I wadna marry onybody else, I canna marry you noo.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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"I'm telt that a 'the managers roun' aboot ha'e an understandin 'with one another no' to gi'e work to onybody they take a dislike to."
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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