nither
Britishverb
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I know'd the gal was drownded, and I tell'd the inquisitdoners, that ize nither geestin nor jokin about it; but if they'd permit me to give em my ideze, they'd obleege me.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
If ai is different from e, then again and agen cannot be the same word, and if i and e are neither identical nor equivalent, nither and neether are two different words.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
Well, zune us gets out, though ai caan't tall'ee whur tu 'twas, and ai caan't tall'ee what us did nither, vur me 'aid was gwaine round an' round and aachin' vit to burst.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-17 by Sir Owen Seaman
"No, nor it's not mine, nither," said the 'squire.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
"I'd 'ave sooner had 'un of anybody else," said he, "but thur war nur anuther to be had, and it bean't such a bad 'un nither, only Measter Humphreys be hardish in the mouth."
From The Toilers of the Field by Richard Jefferies
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