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"ref": "a. 1931 (date written), D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “A Hay Hut among the Mountains”, in Warren Roberts, Harry T. Moore, editors, Phoenix II: Uncollected, Unpublished, and Other Prose Works by D. H. Lawrence […], Viking Compass edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, published 1970, part I (Stories and Sketches), page 43",
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"ipa": "/dɹi/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ðreː/",
"tags": [
"Ireland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/driː/",
"tags": [
"Ireland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/dri/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iː"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dree.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dree.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dree.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dree.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dree.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "dree"
}
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