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{
"form": "aksing",
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"ref": "1865, William Stott Banks, A List of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, London: J.R.Smith, page 3",
"text": "AKS, ask.",
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"ref": "2004, Larry Dean Hamilton, A Gathering of Angels, page 132",
"text": "Another thing, kid, don't aks me no more questions tonight.",
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],
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