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Derth vs Yerth - What's the difference?

derth | yerth |

As nouns the difference between derth and yerth

is that derth is dearth; scarcity while yerth is earth.

derth

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) dearth; scarcity
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    yerth

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (dialectal, dated) earth
  • * {{quote-book, year=1875, author=Various, title=Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Maybe the great anes o' the yerth get sic a forlethie (surfeit ) o' grand'ur 'at they're for nae mair, an' wad perish like the brute beast. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Ellen Glasgow, title=The Battle Ground, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Den he drap right ter de yerth , en I des stop long enough ter put a tin bucket on my haid 'fo' I began ter crawl atter Marse Dan. }}

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