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What I don't understan is how anyone could have voted for him once let alone twice.

Bill Clinton lashes out at Vanity Fair reporter 2008

'Well, I knaw I doan' understan 'her,' said the man sadly.

Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

An 'understan' the natur 'of the critter thet I be.

Memories and Anecdotes Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917 1915

Or I'll turn you over to the police, y'understan '?

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

You know, y'understan ', we' get a powerful lot o 'tramps here right along ...

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

Ah couldn 'understan' a word of hit; Ah reckon hit's his foreign words or somethin ', but Ah never heard anythin' like hit befo '.

A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903

An 'understan' the natur 'of the critter thet I be.

Memories and Anecdotes Kate Sanborn 1878

Nebber hab notin 'to do wid what I don' understan '.

The Madman and the Pirate Arthur Twidle 1859

We set here him an 'me, an' understan 'one' nother even when we don't talk -- jest set an 'smoke an' puff -- "

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

"Not jes 'with war-paint an' tomahawk, yo 'understan'," continued the old man, enjoying the boy's astonishment, "but uncivilized an 'wild.

The Boy With the U.S. Census Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918