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How can you use “dem” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Instead of Labor, Liberal Dem, or Tory, you might hear, "Loony."
Willey is a more believable witness than Lewinsky, explain the pundits, because she's an appealing, attractive woman (John Harris, PBS's Washington Week in Review ; Evan Thomas, Inside Washington ). And Willey carries no right-wing conspirator baggage: She's a through and through Dem with impeccable left-wing credentials (Susan Page, Late Edition ; Brit Hume, Fox News Sunday ; Gigot, NewsHour ; Thomas).
There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.
The parliamentary home of Wilhelminian and Weimar Germany displays the proud dedication Dem deutschen Volke (To the German People) on a Neo-Classical façade built in 1894 by Paul Wallot.
Dear Dem,
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