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Examples
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That black coon o 'yers'd turn me out, if he saw me comin', thinkin 'I was a tramp. "
Mary Louise in the Country J. Allen St. [Illustrator] John 1887
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Don't need to be nothing special -- I ain't bribing yers for a rave review -- just enough to get the word out.
A Scruffian Christmas Hal Duncan 2009
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He has a great work ethic and he would probably be a great bargain to sign on as he has not had prior TV contracts with the exception of the BET show He will be very well known in another two yers even without IDOL so Get him now
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I am currently on my second year of the FM-2 and according to a lawyer here in Manzanillo you can apply for citizenship after 5 yers in the country and 2 years on an FM-2.
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I am currently on my second year of the FM-2 and according to a lawyer here in Manzanillo you can apply for citizenship after 5 yers in the country and 2 years on an FM-2.
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Spend yers not living, Attend policy group after group, Get into office or wuango, skim and agree, get into westminster, skim and accrue, getinto number 10, arrange boo deal, lecture tours, accrue enough money to seperate from the plebs.
Middle East Peace Envoy, US Congressional Gold Medal of Honour, born again Catholic - are there no limits to this creep's brassneck? Alan Smart 2009
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Any attempt to save yer grandparents would result in a battle with the English who hold yer family keep and he canna justify exchanging the lives of our people for yers.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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I am currently on my second year of the FM-2 and according to a lawyer here in Manzanillo you can apply for citizenship after 5 yers in the country and 2 years on an FM-2.
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I am currently on my second year of the FM-2 and according to a lawyer here in Manzanillo you can apply for citizenship after 5 yers in the country and 2 years on an FM-2.
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I am currently on my second year of the FM-2 and according to a lawyer here in Manzanillo you can apply for citizenship after 5 yers in the country and 2 years on an FM-2.
Maroalex commented on the word yers
Does Yers means yours and you !
July 21, 2011
rolig commented on the word yers
No, it is a term in Slavic linguistics. Specifically, the yers are the reduced vowels, or schwas, of Old Slavic, usually represented using the Cyrillic letters ь (pronounced in Old Slavic something like the "i" in "hit") and ъ (pronounced in Old Slavic something like the "u" in "hut"). In modern Russian, these letters are known as the "soft sign" and "hard sign", respectively; they no longer represent any sound in themselves, although they still retain the power to affect the pronunciation of the letters around them. In Bulgarian, by contrast, the hard yer is still very much alive as a vowel. It is largely because of the yers, by the way – or more specifically because of their loss of phonetic value over a millennium ago – that the Slavic languages have their characteristic consonant clusters, as in the Slovene word vzdržljiv ("durable"), which at one point would have been pronounced with yers: vъzьdъržljiv (/vuziduržljiv/).
July 21, 2011
bilby commented on the word yers
I heard a crusty Lord say it in a tv interview the other day. "Phone hacking has been going on for yers and something must be done about it."
July 22, 2011
rolig commented on the word yers
I don't know why anyone would hack for yers, since they are readily obtainable in any Cyrillic font. I think Lord Crusty must be mistaken.
July 22, 2011