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ary adjective Any, a single. [< e’r a < ever + a; DARE labels this usage "especially South, Midland"]

1862 Robinson CW Letters (July 28) She sayes that She ant going to try arey nother. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 81 My dogs can follow ary trail, same’s a hound. 1939 Hall Coll (Wears Cove TN) It was a brother of mine that found [the remains of a dead man]. We never tetched the bones. We got a jury before we moved him ary bit. 1955 Ritchie Singing Family 85 I’m a mean, cranky old woman, but if it had a-been ary nother soul but you I wouldn’t have cared. 1997 Dante OHP-14 They wasn’t ary high school, only at Council. That one was miles away, over in Buchanan County.

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