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Old 02-09-2010, 01:43 AM
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Also, some of the "contrived" (?) ways of speaking really, really annoyed me. An example of is using the word "happen" all the time, usually meaning "maybe".
It's short for 'may happen' and is still used in this sense in Lancashire dialect, maybe elsewhere in the North too.
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