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From Yorkshire comes this story of the school-teacher who was trying to stamp out dialect in a lonely village. One of her scholars having written the word putten in his composition, the teacher said severely, " Look at this sentence and tell me what is wrong." For a moment the lad stared hard at the sentence, then, with a sudden inspiration, he replied, " Why, Miss, ah'vc gone an' putten putten wheer ah owt ti hev' putten put."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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77DIALECT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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