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- pronoun Geordie
me
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Examples
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‘I reads this guys articles before on this site.’ yu dun reads my articles? well gursh dungit, thanks billybobjoe. heres us hopin uz gets first place in the hog show tarmmera!
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V iz missing itz left arm if it iz nawt facing uz, that is.
show & dinner - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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We had no skool today, but we didn't do anything today!! lol livliv was home but we waz waitin for her to call uz, but she didn't.
clashpunk Diary Entry clashpunk 2003
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En de word uz tuk up by de whole band a 'Chrischuns, exclud'n' de very moaners deyse'ves.
The Heart of Old Hickory and Other Stories of Tennessee 1895
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He grins, -- an 'that's nigger, -- but I've ketched his under jaw a-trimblin' when Lucindy's name uz brung up.
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"Yessum," said Free Joe, cheerfully assenting to the proposition -- "yessum, dat's so, but me an 'my ole 'oman, we' uz raise tergeer, en dey aint bin many days w'en we 'uz' way fum one 'n'er like we is now."
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All dis time I 'uz' lowin 'dat de sodger wuz stone dead, but w'en I took' im down he opened his eyes en axed fur water.
The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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'uz' ten'in 'ter he own business en you oughter bin' ten'in 'ter yone.'
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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'uz' ten'in 'ter he own business en you oughter bin' ten'in 'ter yone.'
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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Bes 'I kin do is rickalect when I' uz 'bout fifty. "
Seventeen 1915
mollusque commented on the word uz
Dialect form of "was"; often written " 'uz".
December 8, 2007