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Tips from 1870 | No one who has any regard for purity of diction and the proprieties of cultivated society will be guilty of the use of such expressions as yaller for yellow, feller for fellow, kittle for kettle, kiver for cover, ingons for onions, cowcumbers for cucumbers, sparrowgrass for asparagus, yarbs for herbs, taters for potatoes, tomats for tomatoes, bile for boil, hain't for ain't or isn't, het for heated, kned for kneaded, sot for sat or set, teeny for tiny, fooling you for deceiving you, them for those, shut up for be quiet, or be still, or cease speaking, went back on me for deceived me or took advantage of me, a power of people for a great many people, a power of money for great wealth, a heap of houses for many houses, lots of books for many books, lots of corn for much corn or large quantities of corn, gents for gentlemen, and many others of a similar character. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 45 52 59 56 55 4C 47 41 52 56 55 4C 47 41 52 49 53 4D 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000101 01010010 01011001 00100000 01010110 01010101 01001100 01000111 01000001 01010010 00100000 01010110 01010101 01001100 01000111 01000001 01010010 01001001 01010011 01001101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V E R Y   V U L G A R   V U L G A R I S M S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0045 0052 0059 0056 0055 004C 0047 0041 0052 0056 0055 004C 0047 0041 0052 0049 0053 004D 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)563952592565546413552256554641355243534753 |
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