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FINNEGAN -- "Oh, yis, Oi can undershtand how thim astronomers can calkilate th 'distance av a shtarr, its weight, and dinsity and color and all thot -- but th' thing thot gets me is, how th 'divvle do they know its _name_."
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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But you _must_ come and speak to all de people in America who undershtand music.
The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895
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_ But I'd like to invite all de persons in New York who really undershtand music.
The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895
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"Now I undershtand your unfortunate condition, shir.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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a strange language, although Oi could undershtand; and 'he says, says he:
The Blind Spot Austin Hall 1908
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I can undershtand Frinch like a native -- so I shall know everything that you say -- but begorra the Oirish brogue of me makes it difficult for thim froggies to undershtand me when I shpake to thim. "
The Castaways Harry Collingwood 1886
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"Becase," he replied, "the chaps aboard the barque don't seem to be able to undershtand a worrud we say to thim; and bedad we're in the same fix with regar-rd to thim.
The Castaways Harry Collingwood 1886
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