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La Farge prefers the print edition: “Of course you can look words up online. But how will you stumble on the ones you don’t know you don’t know: ug, or apocalypst, or catoptromancy?”
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2018
Without waiting for the guns to be drawn ug, he quietly stepped down.
From Time Magazine Archive
JULIE: The Man with the Iron Mask and the fella who says "ug uh-glug uh-glug uh-glug" when the line is busy.
From Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
De sharp bit, de strong arm, Hi, ho, ug, hi, ho, ug, Dis tree am done 'fore us warm.'
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration
Their name for ghost is Jeebi, a word rendered plural in ug.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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