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  • 'D-double e-r,' corrected Rebus, thinking: But it probably was dear enough when they bought it.

    Strip Jack Rankin, Ian, 1960- 1992

  • "I'm glad you like him, Willie," said Mrs Willders, who was busy patching the knees of a pair of small unmentionables; "but I wish, dear, that you would not use slang in your speech, and remember that fellow is not spelt with an e-r at the end of it."

    Fighting the Flames 1859

  • If she asks how to spell bird, I might tell her that the "ir" sound is most often spelled with e-r, but in this case it's i-r like in first or dirt.

    HS Blog - Homeschool Blog 2008

  • KueUins & Vakriut Cordtts vtrunque Cumi 'nifylueftrisgentts m Confohda regali, e-r Comuta t nofcitant.

    Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550

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