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August 24th, 2009 11: 00 am ET we need a public opition!!!!!! we also need to remember at election times the party of NO, and there dem. buddies like the sen from n.d. the blue dogs espically, lieberman. if people wornt so stupid we could take of this in a couple election.
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March 4, 2008 at 3:49 pm eye fort yu wuz wornt bowt werrin teh tinfoyl hat!
So i sez to him, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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February 21, 2008 at 7:01 pm ju wornt sum kimchi wif dat?
pwning ur elders - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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There wornt much mune at th 'time, but we could see things clar enough, and thow we looked around us we couldn't see a livin' thing a movin 'either nigh th' woods nor on th 'ma'shes.
The Shrieking Pit 1907
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An 'folks says mournful' Thet's the last one '-- they never' llows thet God done hit kase the folks wornt wuth nothin 'by hisn's count.
The Durket Sperret, 1898
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"Well, Mis 'Deane, say' ow ye will an 'what ye will, -- there's a spider this very blessed instant a' crawlin 'on the bottom of the ironin' blanket, which is a sure sign as 'ow yer washin' won't come to no good try iver so 'ard, for as we all knows --' See a spider at morn, An 'ye'll wish ye wornt born: See a spider at night, An' yer wrongs'll come right! '"
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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'E wornt but a ten-year-old lad, an' that prison spoilt
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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An shoo gave some to her husband, but it wornt varry much: --
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Sammywell sat varry still an Mally wornt varry long befoor shoo wor back, an as sooin as shoo could shoo made him a glass booath strong an hot, an considerin at it wor baght sewger, he tuk it varry weel, tho 'he did pool a faal face after he'd getten it daan.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Sammywell had it under his arm in a twinklin, but it wornt quite as easy gettin up on th 'thack agean, but he managed it, an after a deeal o' flutterin an squawkin, he teed it fast to tother end oth 'string.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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