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Examples
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They say they are all about freedom, bu twant to prevent me my choice.
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I think it's easy to be extremely emotional about the whole topic and jus twant to rip all the kids out of there immediately without really looking at the situation.
Well, If It's My Opinion You Want jodifur 2008
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And I really don 'twant a female complicating things around here, he added, but only in thought.
Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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Well, they tried all they could to console the beaver, but it 'twant no use.
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
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In dem days bear, deer, turkey, and squirrels wuz plentiful an '' twant long befo 'we had kilt all we could carry.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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"These sweat-pads of yourn would be pretty fair if 'twant fur the lumps of sody a feller's allus bitin' into," the herder commented.
The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Mr. Buzzard flap his wings, en scramble 'ronn' right smartually, he did, but 'twant no use.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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"Dar now, Marse Cole, it's a blessed thing, dat you'se got me and dese udder fellows to look atter dis mess, kaze if it twant for us, you'd go hungry many a time, and dats a fac."
A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. George Little 1881
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Hit was tech en go wid um, too, mon, en w'en dey make up dere mines w'at hatter be done, 'twant mo'a menshun'd' fo 'hit wuz done.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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I leab you to say dis time ef 'twant needed, and dat pow'ful bad.
The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Kate Sanborn 1878
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