p'tic'lah

Updated: June 3, 2025

I know it wa'n't just accordin' to the letter o' the law, and the old Judge was always pootty p'tic'lah. But I've took care of the place goin' on twenty years now, and I hain't never had a chick nor a child in it before.

William Dean Howells - Annie Kilburn : a Novel