aboot

Examples

• c. 1686, Ed. Halley, “An Historical Account of the Trade Winds and Monsoons, observable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks, with an attempt to assign the Physical Cause of the said Winds”, re-printed in Miscellanea Curiosa: Containing a Collection of some of the Principal Phænomena in Nature, Accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age; Being the Most Valuable Discourses, Read and Delivered to the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Physical and Mathematical Knowledge, As also a Collection of Curious Travels, Voyages, Antiquities, and Natural Histories of Countries; Presented to the same Society, second edition, volume I, R. Smith (1708), page 65, The one is, why, notwithstanding the narrowest part of the Sea between Guinea and Brazile be aboot five hundred Leagues over, yet Ships bound to the Southward, sometimes, especially in the Months of July and August, find a great difficulty to pass it.
• 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. [...]”