Citations:brung

English citations of brung

Verb

				1797	1830
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• 1797, Caleb Bingham, The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, together with Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston), p. 290:

  Gent. No wonder that such ignorance should expose you to insults. A man like you, who has been brung up among savages, and not able to speak intelligibly, must expect to receive severe discipline, when he first visits a land of civilization.

• 1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as It Existed in the Last Twenty Years of the Eighteenth Century and Still Exists; with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority (London: J.B. Nichols and Son), p. 150:

  We use brought, indeed, for the most part as the participle (with our own pronunciation, of course), but we say just as often I have brung, as I have brought.