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- verb
Eye dialect spelling ofwould .
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Examples
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"Vot's in a name; the thing ve call a duck by any other name vould heat as vell!" declaimed Spriggs, parodying the immortal Shakspeare.
Sketches — Complete Robert Seymour 1818
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"Vot's in a name; the thing ve call a duck by any other name vould heat as vell!" declaimed Spriggs, parodying the immortal Shakspeare.
Sketches — Volume 01 Robert Seymour 1818
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My grandmother, as ignorant a woman as ever, fled the Czar, believed that "Mr. Ed" really was a talking horse -- here you have to imagine a thick Russian accent -- "or vy vould he be on the TV?"
Jesse Kornbluth: Singer-Songwriter Josh Ritter Has Written 'Bright's Passage,' A Novel. He's The James Franco Of Music. Jesse Kornbluth 2011
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In the house I grew up in I got into bowhunting because I vould do it out my bedroom window - and the one time I shot a deer with a 30-30 from my window I thought it wa the end of me .. literally.
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In the house I grew up in I got into bowhunting because I vould do it out my bedroom window - and the one time I shot a deer with a 30-30 from my window I thought it wa the end of me .. literally.
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My grandmother, as ignorant a woman as ever, fled the Czar, believed that "Mr. Ed" really was a talking horse -- here you have to imagine a thick Russian accent -- "or vy vould he be on the TV?"
Jesse Kornbluth: Singer-Songwriter Josh Ritter Has Written 'Bright's Passage,' A Novel. He's The James Franco Of Music. Jesse Kornbluth 2011
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I vould like to thank my motor...euh... my mother.
Bearing Witness: Hitting From Behind BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Less CO2 consumption, safer infrastructure, less violence and drugs is some I vould suggest.
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Inga: His veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size.
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Well, I'm just sittin pretty like Dionne Warwick ( "Deja vu ... vould this be the dream that I once knew?") in Betsy Hearne's office at my old stomping grounds at the BCCB, waiting to Go On (in half an hour).
March-April Horn Book Magazine Roger Sutton 2007
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