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  • and /ʃæl/ when stressed. Shan't is pronounced /ʃɑːnt/ in England, New Zealand, South Africa etc.; in North America (if used) it is pronounced /ʃænt/, and...
    34 KB (4,597 words) - 21:54, 23 November 2024
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    simplicity is gained, To bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed, To turn, turn will be our delight, Till by turning, turning we come 'round right. Several...
    17 KB (2,045 words) - 09:37, 21 November 2024
  • social reform is utopian ("We shan't live to see the real advance"), she has worked it out in quite some detail: "[...] How can we wonder that only one person...
    8 KB (1,043 words) - 18:25, 13 November 2024
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    passion for riches and power. "You shan't covet" means that we should banish our desires for whatever doesn't belong to us. Never having enough money is...
    32 KB (4,634 words) - 01:42, 11 November 2024
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    said, I shan't be going to see it. My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way, and designed to be read...
    28 KB (1,988 words) - 19:07, 11 November 2024
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    spread beyond drama and fiction to personal letters, journalism, and descriptive texts. An't, ben't, can't, don't, han't, shan't and won't were well established...
    95 KB (10,552 words) - 07:10, 2 October 2024
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    done that yesterday ("It would have been expedient, or expected of me, to do that yesterday"). The negative inflections are shan't and shouldn't. Negating...
    81 KB (9,927 words) - 12:23, 21 October 2024
  • beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow, not just what we're compelled to give him. The time's coming, Watson, when we shan't be able to fill our...
    9 KB (1,015 words) - 21:52, 6 October 2024
  • Importing circles' quotients are, we see, Unwieldy long series of cockle burs Put all together, get no clarity; Mnemonics shan't describeth so reformed Creating...
    39 KB (3,162 words) - 22:44, 23 November 2024
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    declined to participate. Simper stated, "Yes, it is a little strange that I am [the] only one from Marks I, II and III being left out, but I shan't lose any...
    12 KB (1,072 words) - 10:39, 16 November 2024
  • anthem of Sylt. The lyrics were written by C. P. Christiansen (1855–1922). It is sung annually at the Biikebrennen. Leew Eilun Feer *Wilts, Ommo (2001)...
    4 KB (93 words) - 22:53, 29 March 2020
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    forms can/can't/cannot and could/couldn't, may and might/mightn't, shall/shan't and should/shouldn't, will/won't and would/wouldn't, as well as need/needn't...
    38 KB (5,225 words) - 04:47, 11 October 2024
  • vividly," recalled Robert Hardy. "It was a ghastly shock, and one thought, 'Well, that's the end of that. We shan't be going on.'" Timothy remembers:...
    63 KB (9,150 words) - 21:15, 2 November 2024
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    Rivers of Blood speech (category History of immigration to the United Kingdom)
    married now, with family. I shan't be satisfied till I have seen them all settled overseas." The man finished by saying to Powell: "In this country in...
    53 KB (6,912 words) - 09:22, 15 November 2024
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    artistic merits in it". He also warned conductor Eduard Nápravník that "I shan't be at all surprised and offended if you find that it is in a style unsuitable...
    93 KB (11,136 words) - 18:25, 22 November 2024
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    terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given...
    154 KB (16,319 words) - 16:07, 23 November 2024
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    alright. I shan't give you no address now, not until I land for it won't be worth. I did not see David Rees in Southampton at all. Remember me to all I know...
    7 KB (970 words) - 18:51, 26 November 2023
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    away: It shan't! that Walloon twaddle will have its way: It shan't! This we hope, for this we hanker: this we say and this we vow: as long as we fight...
    93 KB (10,155 words) - 13:59, 7 November 2024
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    Hellenism (modern religion) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Athens, I shan't worry that they have much to do with ancient religion at all", later commented that, "I think I was really responding to the claims...
    67 KB (7,750 words) - 16:25, 22 November 2024
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    climbed the kop to frontal assault on the British position. Prinsloo told his men: "Burghers, we're now going in to attack the enemy and we shan't all be coming...
    36 KB (4,416 words) - 23:28, 6 November 2024
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