counthry

plural counthries

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of country.

   I wish St. Pathrick had made a trip to India and dhriven the sarpints out av the counthry the same as he did in Ireland."

   1922, Gordon Casserly, The Jungle Girl

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   If ye've no relish for a fortification, in a time of war, ye've only to shoulther yer knapsack, and go out into the open counthry, where ye'll have all to yer own satisfaction.

   1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte

   Ye have raiched the goold counthry, which, being the same, I rispictfully asks ye all to jine mesilf in letting out a hurrah which will make the town trimble and the payple open their eyes so wide that they won't git them shet agin for a wake to come.

   1898, E. S. Ellis, Klondike Nuggets

   One crone raised herself sufficiently to remark that it was a fine thing for the counthry, glory be to God! which patriotic sentiment won a smile from Sister Louise, but failed to awaken much enthusiasm in any one else.

   1902, M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell), North, South and Over the Sea