bort
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“When my father said daay bort, pronouncing the word ‘deport’ by breaking it into syllables that creaked like a door opening and shutting,” she writes, “I felt its decree.”
From New York Times ● May 14, 2023
It is tempting to wonder whether some curious misprints – "luther" for either; "bort" for both – constitute a sly joke about our own language-processing abilities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010
O barn af Finland, byt ej bort Din ädla fosterjord!
From Through Finland in Carts by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
"And bort this banjer, put on your best noo trousers and come right on 'ere?"
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Both bort and carbonado seem to be really aggregates of crystallized diamond, but the carbonado is so nearly structureless that it was till recently regarded as an amorphous modification of carbon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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