aboot

prep

1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling)Pronunciation spelling of about.

   “Maister Fothergill West and the meenister say that I maun tell all I can aboot General Heatherstone and his hoose, but that I maunna say muckle aboot mysel'.”

   “1926 August, Zane Grey, “From Missouri”, re-printed in The Lawless West, Dorchester Publishing (2007), →ISBN, page 12, “Heah he reads in a Kansas City paper aboot a schoolteacher wantin’ a job out in dry Arizonie. And he ups an’ writes her an’ gets her a-rarin’ to come. Then, when she writes an’ tells us she’s not over forty, then us quits like yellow coyotes. […]””

   “...hoo aboot a raffle...?...”