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"categories": [
"English pronunciation spellings",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1922, Booth Tarkington, Gentle Julia:",
"text": "An' every blessed minute I stannin' there, can't I hear that ole Miz Blatch nex' do', out in her back yod an' her front yod, an' plum out in the street, hollerin': 'Kitty?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Pronunciation spelling of yard."
],
"links": [
[
"Pronunciation spelling",
"pronunciation spelling"
],
[
"yard",
"yard#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"pronunciation-spelling"
]
}
],
"word": "yod"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "#"
},
"expansion": "yod m (invariable)",
"name": "it-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "iod"
}
],
"categories": [
"Italian countable nouns",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian indeclinable nouns",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian masculine nouns",
"Italian nouns",
"Italian terms spelled with Y",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of iod"
],
"links": [
[
"iod",
"iod#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"invariable",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "yod"
}
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