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- icening
- icening sugar
- icicle
- idle bob
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- if God spare my life; if God give life
- Igbo
- ignorance
- ijittimy
- Ilathera
- ill-convenient
- in
- in quest
- in-a
- in-and-out
- Inagua
- Indian arrowroot
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- Irish potato
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- island boy (girl, man, people); islander
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- islandish
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ID #2342
it is
[Car.; also US Black and dial, in Brit., US South (Hancock p.c.)] phr. there is (are, was, were): 1895 'T was a man; 'e had nine acre' of groun' to cut down (Edwards 85). 1918 Once it was a woman (Parsons 140). 1936 It ain' nuff food t' go roun' (Dupuch 15). Is it any mangoes? (White). cf. BE1 2, IS2 3 (Gen.)
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Last update: 2010-10-28 02:23
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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