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t’other pronoun, adjective The other. [DARE labels this these usages “ chiefly New England, South, South Midland”]

1862 Bradshaw CW Letters (March 30) [You] have fur gotton me one or tother. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 81 T’other way, no hound'll raelly fight a bar—hit takes a big severe dog to do that. 1954 Arnow Dollmaker 87 She didn’t come with t’others that Sunday about a week ago. 1976 Ogle and Nixon If Only We always called it this house and “tother” house.

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