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  • this
    /dis/, that /dat/; these /diyz/, those /dowz/ [Car.; US Black (Holm 1978)] demonstrative adj. used with proper place names: 1940
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  • thin-lip
    /tín lip/ [cf. THICK LIP] n. a variety of conch, Strombus sp.  <Black>.
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  • think
    /tingk/ [Scots idem CSD] n. thought, opinion: 1917 Dat don’t go wid my tinks [thoughts] (Defries 107). <Inagua, San Sal.
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  • thiefy
    /tíyfi/ [cf. DJE tiefinness thievery; OED thieving] adj. inclined to steal (child's word). <Black>
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  • thief, teef
    /tiyf/ [Atlantic; cf. OED thieve to steal, by devoicing of final /v/ (cf. Cam. mufam move CCD) or influenced by
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  • thick-lip
    /tik lip/ [DJE idem, cf. THIN-LIP] n. a variety of conch, Strombus sp. cf. BROAD-LIP CONCH
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  • thickes'
    /tíkes/ [probably from thicket, influenced by thickest] n. that part (of a field, etc) where the growth is most dense:
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  • theyself
    /déysef <Black>; déysel <Mayag., Inagua>/ [Car.; cf. Brit. dial. thersel, theyself (OED), US dial. theirself, Black deyse'f (ADD)] refl. pron. themselves:
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  • they
    /de/ [by /r/ loss and earlier lack of case distinctions in pronouns] poss. adj. their: 1918 HE break dey laig
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  • there-so
    /dé sow/ [Car.; cf. de-so idem DJE, Atlantic ya-so here (Hancock 1969:64)] phr. there (emphatic): He had a house right
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