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thoo1
- nonstandardpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of through, representing African-American Vernacular English.
"We's gwing ter get thoo dis jes fine. De lawd woan gives you mo' dan you kin tek. Jes trust in him, chile, an eve'thing bes awright."
2021 July 10, Judith Ann McDowell, Fated Memories2 more examples
Up thoo de lawn an' 'twixt de trees, jes' like a spring-time rivah breeze, dat youngster comes a-troopin' - I think he had de boldes' step a tired infant evah kep', an' nary bit er droopin'.
1885, William Lightfoot Visscher, Black Mammy: A Song of the Sunny South in Three Cantos; and My Village Home, page 35"I ain' nervous;" he says to John and Annie, "but dat saw, a-cuttin' en grindin' thoo dat stick er timber, en moanin', en groanin', en sweekin' kyars my 'memb'ance back ter ole times, en 'min's me er po' Sandy" (Chesnutt, Conjure 45-46).
2006, Erik Redling, Speaking of Dialect: Translating Charles W. Chesnutt's Conjure Tales Into Postmodern Systems of Signification, page 79
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