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- -ee, -y
- ear-ache
- early nut
- ears, hears, years
- earth
- eas'
- eas' cake
- ease up
- east'ard
- easy-to-get-ven
- eat
- eat off someone
- eat someone out
- eating sore
- Ebenezer jack
- Ebo
- Eboe light-wood
- ebony
- eddy
- edge of the ocean
- edge-hog
- edging
- ee bee en
- Egba
- egg apple
- egg bird
- egg fruit
- egg-trash
- eggs
- eh
- either
- Eleuthera
- Eleuthera bark
- Eleutheria
- eleven o'clock
- eleven-string
- else
- else-way
- Empire flowers
- en
- endeavor; endeavor best
- ending-night
- English thrasher
- enjoy
- enough
- envelop
- Errol Fitzgerald
- erry
- Essequibo lily
- etch!
- eucharist lily
- evaporated cream
- even
- even
- evening
- eventime
- ever
- exactly
- except
- expecially
- expensive
- extray
- Exuma
- eye catch fire for something
- eye-docity
- eye-man
- eye-opener
- eye-skin
- eye-water
- eye-winker
- eyes
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ears, hears, years
[Atlantic; these forms have different sources: year ear was used in standard English until the 16th century (OED) and is still current in US dial. South (ADD); hear ear is the result of /h/ alternating freely with initial vowels in various Brit. dial. and that of Abaco, and influence from hear v.; all three forms have incorporated the Eng. pl. ending -s into the root] n. sing, or pl. ear or ears: 1928 yeres, ears (Par-sons 481). My ears hurt me [referring to a single ear] (Nassau). Ear, hear, hair, air, heir, err, hare—they all sound the same but spell different (Abaco). (Black)
Tags: anatomy, body part, noun
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
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