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shure

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shure

  1. Eye dialect spelling of sure.
    • 1845, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Night and Morning, Complete[1]:
      "You see, sir, quite hand in glove with Dashing Jerry; met in the same inn last night--preconcerted, you may be quite shure."
    • 1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873[2]:
      "Oh, Mr. Munro, shure here's a card for yees," handing me a lady's card.
    • 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter VIII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1906 February 26, →OCLC:
      [] it's shure as I'm tellin' ye, it's them that has the reference to the immejit surroundin's that has the most of power.

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