Dialect time in the comics

A Frazz passed on by a number of people on Facebook:

Well, you scarcely need to go to the Bronx to find sprain and sprayin’ falling together in casual speech. Or walls with spray-painted graffiti.

But I long to see what the kid does with euphemism.

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Stan Says:
April 25, 2013 at 11:39 pm | Reply
“You from Izyum?”
“No, Kiev.”
thnidu Says:
October 31, 2013 at 8:18 pm | Reply
I’ve read “Me for youse’m and you for me’s’m.”

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