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"ref": "1866 March 18, Tranquill [pseudonym], “Keep Cool! Keep Cool! Keep Cool!”, in S[imon] P[arker] Hanscom, editor, Daily National Republican, volume VI, number 90, Washington, D.C.: W[illiam] J. Murtagh & Co., front page, column 4:",
"text": "He lookt rather strocked, an he says: “Aint a man goin to hav no freedumb of speech?” I told him, “Of course, you’ll hav all the freedumb of speech you want—but you came up here from Connettycut an got a clerkship becaus you couldn’t get inter office at home, an you didn’t want ter bone down ter hard work.[…]”",
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"ref": "1918 November 11, C. Green, “Wavelets from the Deep”, in M. F. Hetherington, editor, The Lakeland Evening Telegram, number 9, Lakeland, Fla., page [4], column 2:",
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"ref": "1946, The University of Michigan (publisher), Rubber Journal - Volumes 110-111, page 129:",
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"ref": "1964, Pennsylvania Home Rule Association (contributor), Pennsylvania Road Builder - Volumes 37-38, page 5:",
"text": "We hear the cry freedom, freedom, on every side, but it seems some men spell it freedumb.",
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"ref": "1971, Ezra Pound, The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941, page 265:",
"text": "... all but the local hill-habitators who are all out and bigod they won't have any more cow if they ain't got freedumb to leave tubercles in the milk.",
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"text": "But whoever claims vociferously and advocates 100% freedom within themselves know that it is not so and is only 100% 'FREEDUMB'",
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"text": "The freedom for free speech is rapidly becoming freedumb on all four feet.",
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"ref": "2010, Maxine Y. Anderson, My Heart Aches So My Mind Bleeds - A Collection of Poetry, page 61:",
"text": "But justice takes a stand / And releases us from the turmoil, / Freedumb rings from the hand / But not from the soil",
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"ref": "2011, Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap, & Idiots Think They're Right:",
"text": "But freedumb also tells us that we can do whatever we like, because we're free to ignore those who think they know better.",
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"ref": "2016, Lucy Woodhull, 667 Ways to F*ck Up My Life:",
"text": "My first day of terrifying, amazing freedumb flew by in a stupor.",
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"ref": "2018, Joe Dixon, The Intelligence Wars: Logos Versus Mythos:",
"text": "The Mythos Trinity - free-market capitalism, Judaeo-Christianity, and freedumb and dumbocracy - is a ferociously difficult system to overthrow because it appeals so powerfully to so many people.",
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"ref": "2020, Mia Miata, The Goddess Code - Goddess in Womanifestation:",
"text": "Freedom or freedumb? Which do you choose?",
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"text": "But justice takes a stand / And releases us from the turmoil, / Freedumb rings from the hand / But not from the soil",
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"ref": "2011, Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap, & Idiots Think They're Right:",
"text": "But freedumb also tells us that we can do whatever we like, because we're free to ignore those who think they know better.",
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"ref": "2016, Lucy Woodhull, 667 Ways to F*ck Up My Life:",
"text": "My first day of terrifying, amazing freedumb flew by in a stupor.",
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"text": "The Mythos Trinity - free-market capitalism, Judaeo-Christianity, and freedumb and dumbocracy - is a ferociously difficult system to overthrow because it appeals so powerfully to so many people.",
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"text": "Freedom or freedumb? Which do you choose?",
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