“Now ef ye alls don’t quit fussin’, I’ll set the boogers arter ye ter-night,” which was a dire and telling threat, for, to the mountain children, “boogers” meant ghosts, witches, hobgoblins, thieves, or any other terrible, mysterious creature of the night.
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Ef was probably a bilabial, not a labiodental spirant, as is also evident from Goth.
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I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
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Captain Tom would have hired him to hunt down his own child, ef Rosebud hadn’t interfered.
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