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They make it possible for me to catch a great reading in Chicago or New York or L.A. or any of the other places so far from my particular ruburb.
Literary Podcasts : Major Jackson : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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If a woman wanted a penny stick a ruburb shoo'd be sure to ax for a cabbage thrown in, an shoo'd say: "Tha knows tha'd nivver ha getten that donkey but for awr Simon givin 'soa mich to'ards it."
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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