| Summary: | blow v Anyhow when they got back off o' their trip,now this feller was goin' to tell the rose* this time; come down on the wharf an' he's_ told the story. See editor's notes. Yes rose*??roast *???? (* = my spelling.The word probably ends in a [t] in this instance,but the sound merges with the following [�]) (sense here is "story", "tale", suggesting that the person is telling a story in full,with all the facts as he knows them. Cp. EDD _roast_ sb 8,and OED/EDD _roose_) J. D. A. WIDDOWSON AUG 1973 Used I Not used 1 Not used Phonetic transcription in editor's notes ([�]) is an approximation of what appears on card - database cannot reproduce the appropriate symbol.
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