"thay" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford",
          "text": "\"The chaps as catches the big fishes, sir,\" went on the keeper, getting confidential, \"is thay cussed night-line poachers.\"",
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          "ref": "1868, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's",
          "text": "\"Good girlth don't thay tho,\" said sweet little Charlie rather shocked.",
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          "ref": "1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Bravery",
          "text": "Do you mean to thay I am no gentleman, thir?",
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          "ref": "1506, Alexander Barclay, The Ship of Fools, Volume 1",
          "text": "Yet fynde I another sort almoste as bad as thay.",
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          "ref": "1566, John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)",
          "text": "But potent is he against whome thei faught; for when thay wicked war in greatast securitie, then begane God to schaw his anger.",
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          "ref": "1838, William Makepeace Thackeray, Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush",
          "text": "Law bless us! there was four of us on this stairkes, four as nice young men as you ever see: Mr. Bruffy's young man, Mr. Dawkinses, Mr. Blewitt's, and me--and we knew what our masters was about as well as thay did theirselfs.",
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          "text": "Law bless us! there was four of us on this stairkes, four as nice young men as you ever see: Mr. Bruffy's young man, Mr. Dawkinses, Mr. Blewitt's, and me--and we knew what our masters was about as well as thay did theirselfs.",
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