- Look up Appendix:English
modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The
English modal auxiliary verbs are a
subset of the
English auxiliary verbs...
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Highlanders were
itching to fire the town
again and were
reported as
saying "she
shoud be a braw toun gin she haed
anither sing". It was
saved by the Duke of Perth...
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report of 1755: "...'tis not in the
interest of
France the
House of
Stuart shoud ever be restored, as it
would only
unite the
three Kingdoms against Them;...
- you,
contribute so
largely to the
dispatch of your
Ships in this
Country shoud [sic] meet with such
unprofitable returns? In the same
letter he asks about...
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occurred historically and are
still found in
anglicised literary Scots. Can,
shoud (should), and will are the
preferred Scots forms.
Scots employs double modal...
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Scots fit (foot), wid (wood), wad (would), oo (wool), coud (could) and
shoud/su(l)d (should). A
following /k/ or /x/
resulted in
Modern Scots /ju/, /u/...
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Publick in general: One is for the Bite of a mad Dog; and the other, if a Man
shoud be near
where the
Plague is, he
shall be in no Danger; which, if made Use...
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report of 1755; "...'tis not in the
interest of
France the
House of
Stuart shoud ever be restored, as it
would only
unite the
three Kingdoms against Them;...
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House in the kingdom, and had
prepared a neat tomb to
receive him when God
shoud please to send him to it" (Clermont, Lord (Thomas Fortescue),
History of...
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upper reaches of the canal,
including the
Leawood pumping station,
shoud be retained. In 1961,
Ripley Urban District Council withdrew an earlier...
