New Yawk
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- Pronunciation spelling of New York, representing New York City English.
- 1987, Tom Wolfe, “The Favor Bank”, in The Bonfire of the Vanities, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, →ISBN, page 384:
- “Well, everything in this building, everything in the criminal justice system in New York”—New Yawk—“operates on favors. […]