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"ref": "1982, Jack S. Scott, An Uprush of Mayhem, page 105:",
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"ref": "2019, Wendy Cheyne, From the Auld Rock to a Hard Place, page 151:",
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"text": "Bill: Me Uncle Ned. Omnes: Uncle Ned? Bill: O, me head — the empty part of me.",
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"text": "\"Well,\" she replied, \"when yer gets up from yer Uncle Ned and yer wants ter get away from the Trouble an' Strife, yer'd go dahn the Frog and Toad to meet yer China Plates at the Rubba-Dub-Dub!\"",
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