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- Scotlandcolloquialcontractiondoes not
No, she disna, she bides at the tother end o' the road.
1906, “The Auld Lads of Corrievreckan”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 28, page 1453 more examples
Ah but, Nanse woman, I'm sad to say that he disna believe what he reads in his Bible.
1874, “Is a Miracle Credible?”, in The Evangelical Repository and United Presbyterian Worker, page 209She was awful raised kind, and wanderin' and that, at the first; but she disna ken onything now, and she disna speak; she's just a sort o' done out, peer creature; but doctor thinks maybe there'll come a lightenin' or she go.
1884, Mary Charlotte J. Leith, From over the water, page 328the East is just a smell ! It begins at Port Said and disna stop till ye come to San Francisco, … if there !
1923, “Olfaction and Public Health”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, page 10
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