t'other

toth·er

or t'oth·er  (tŭth′ər)
pron. & adj. Informal
The other.

[From Middle English the tother, alteration of thet other, that other : thet, the (from Old English thæt; see that) + other, other; see other.]
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One uv 'em is white en shiny, en t'other one is black.
'I should wish, Lawyer Lightwood,' he stipulated, 'to have that T'other Governor as my witness that what I said I said.
Rather baulked, Mr Riderhood evasively remarked, with an innocent air, that he believed the T'other Governor had asked him summa't.
Each boy said to himself: "There's the old deaf and dumb Spaniard that's been about town once or twice lately -- never saw t'other man before."
"T'other" was a ragged, unkempt creature, with nothing very pleasant in his face.
"I have been moved on, and moved on, more nor ever I was afore, since the t'other one give me the sov'ring.
FROM that time out, we was with him 'most all the time, and one or t'other of us slept in his upper berth.
"T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids.
I inflict all this on you because once you said that life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which, and up to now I have always put that down as 'Meg's clever nonsense.' But this morning, it really does seem not life but a play, and it did amuse me enormously to watch the W's.
What with sheep-farming, and what with stock-farming, and what with one thing and what with t'other, we are as well to do, as well could be.