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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
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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
In combining gu and mu with the pronouns, the letters of the Prepositions suffer a transposition, and are written ug, um.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander
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 Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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