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Examples
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Moast haz been ethur swored to sekresee……oar blakmayled in2 kwietness.
A.M.? P.M.? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I swored dat wun day, hur wuz gonna go “cokk-a-doodlol doo!”
This morning we secretly replaced - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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And I swored, didn't I? when the brat was borned, that I wouldn't tell -- and I ain't no liar -- leastwise about no brats.
Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912
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"You infernal old hypocrite; you cussed old shaved - faced scoundrel; didn't you know that I had swored an oath that I would make you sing and dance, and whip you besides if you ever dared to pizen these cross-roads with your shoe-tracks?"
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The cap'n he called out to us to be keerful, an 'Tom Simmons leaned over the rail an' swored; but I didn't pay no 'tention to nuther of 'em, an' we pulled away.
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Tom Simmons leaned over the rail an 'swored; but I didn't pay no
The Magic Egg and Other Stories Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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After I got called out for saying dorf, I began to hyper-correct to the point where I now pronounce sword as swored.
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"You ain't going to back out after you swored it, Dawes?
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Dr. Wilson, my neighbor over across Spring Bottom, said I must come over to the feller what swored in folks, and get the Constitution, and keep it as long as you folks staid around here. "
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett
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'Why, doan't I know it ain't through he, but' cos o 'my own headstrong ways and they sneaks o' revenoo-chaps? 'who falsely swored away his blessed life. "
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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