Historical Examples

• She got a woman to nurse me what had a young baby, so I didn' know no dif'ence.

  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves

  Work Projects Administration

• Diphthong, dif′thong, or dip′thong, n. two vowel-sounds pronounced as one syllable.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)

  Various

• I says, "Either way—don't make no dif'unce, jes' so I git off de fence, for hit's pow'ful oncom'fable up yer."

  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)

  Various

• "Dar's an awful 'stonishin' dif'erens 'tween a catfish and a perk," interposed Uncle Pius.

  The Cave by the Beech Fork

  Henry S. Spalding

• But wid de women it's dif'rent; dey's got jus' sebin, an' bless my soul, brev'ren, I think dat's 'nuff.

  Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences

  Frank R. Stockton