The Flickering Lexicon: Abbreviations
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WORD [FREQ]	WORD IN CONTEXT [FREQ IN LINE]	SONG	YEAR	SOURCE
'ARRY [1]
	Mad 'Arry   [1]	Job Search	2004	The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004
'BOUT [8]
	Don't talk to me 'bout what you done   [1]	This Perfect Day	1999	The Marshall Suite
	I told you 'bout unseen knowledge   [1]	Cowboy Gregori	2010	Bury!
	Tell ya 'bout my friends   [4]	Frenz	1988	The Frenz Experiment
	He said, "John, I guess you wonder 'bout your babies and wife"   [1]	Pinball Machine	1989	Seminal Live
	I'm talking 'bout love   [1]	Psycho Mafia	1978	Early Years 77-79
'CEPT [1]
	'Cept for the drama corporation of co-op theatre   [1]	One Day	1995	Cerebral Caustic
'CHANTED [1]
	'chanted by skyscraper tall   [1]	Crop-Dust	2001	Are You Are Missing Winner
'CHO [2]
	'cho Mafia   [2]	Psycho Mafia	1978	Early Years 77-79
'CROSS [1]
	You'll hear my words on the winds 'cross the sand   [1]	The Legend of Xanadu	1992	Ruby Trax: The NME's Roaring Forty
'DELIC [1]
	Send me on a 'delic kick   [1]	Mr Pharmacist	1986	Bend Sinister
'EM [20]
	Cheat 'em   [12]	Cheetham Hill	1996	The Light User Syndrome
	I'm gonna tell, I'll tell 'em, their term's up   [1]	Last Orders	1977	Short Circuit - Live at the Electric Circus
	Never gives 'em out to every Tom, Dick and Harry   [1]	Petty (Thief) Lout	1985	This Nation's Saving Grace
	Told the women he loved 'em all   [1]	Rollin' Dany	1985	Couldn't Get Ahead
	This cat'd fool 'em all   [1]	Rollin' Dany	1985	Couldn't Get Ahead
	But if you loved ya woman and ya loved 'em right   [1]	Rollin' Dany	1985	Couldn't Get Ahead
	Get 'em away from me   [3]	Solicitor in Studio	1982	Room to Live (Undilutable Slang Truth!)
'GROUND [3]
	[Used to 'ground] medicine   [3]	Underground Medecin	1979	Live at the Witch Trials
'N' [3]
	U.S. dirge, rock 'n' pop filth   [1]	C'n'C-S Mithering	1980	Grotesque (After The Gramme)
	First was Cash 'n' Carry house dance   [1]	C'n'C Black Night	1982	The Fall Box Set 1976-2007
	First was Cash 'n' Carry house dance   [1]	Cash and Carry	1982	A Part of American Therein
'NEATH [1]
	A body's waste 'neath a gibbous moon   [1]	Van Plague?	1988	I Am Kurious Oranj
'POOL [1]
	His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port   [1]	Garden	1983	Perverted by Language
'TRICITY [2]
	'Tricity of the faith   [1]	Devolute (Testa Rossa Monitor Mix)	2000	The Unutterable (2008 reissue)
	'tricity and faith, three years solid for evasion   [1]	Devolute	2000	The Unutterable
-AH [2]
	And I look -ah, I look -ah, I look around   [2]	Ol' Gang	1997	Levitate