Yery vs Yerb - What's the difference?
yery | yerb |
* {{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition=
, passage="At the same time we got a yerb " (such was his pronunciation) "on the hills, which some call lion-heart, and others snake-head." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Charles Egbert Craddock, title=The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge, chapter=, edition=
, passage=When he ventured to sneeze, Mrs. Roxby compounded and administered a "yerb tea," a sovereign remedy against colds, which he tasted on compulsion and in great doubt, and swallowed with alacrity and confidence, finding its basis the easily recognizable "toddy." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, title=Brother Copas, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The ancients, by which I mean the Greeks, set amazin' store by the yerb . }}
As nouns the difference between yery and yerb
is that yery is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet: {{term|ы|lang=ru}}, now usually simply called "ы while yerb is eye dialect of lang=en.yery
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