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haver .
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Examples
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But dooant be surprised if, when yo chuckle, yo should hear another chuckle cloise to yor elbow, for haiver yo lock an 'bolt th' door, yo connot keep th 'devil aght.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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'Tha's noa need to goa onto thi knees abaat it onyway,' sed Ike, 'haiver, hear it is, soa all's reight, tha con hug it up hooam for me; an' he gave it him.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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An 'if it had been anybody else nor thee' at had done this, they'd ha 'heeard a bit o' my tongue, aw con tell thi; but, haiver, it is as it is, soa sit thi daan.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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But aw think, we've follow'd him far enuff for once, an 'yo can form yor own opinion ov what sooart ov a chap he wor, but altho we're inclined to laugh at sich a chap, yet they've happen as mich wisdom as some' at think they've moor; an 'a chap's moor to be envied nor pitied' at can console hissen wi 'thinkin' at haiver bad things are, 'at they mud hai been war.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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An 'a man' at in ane o 'his gran'est verses cud haiver aboot the birth o'
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
bilby commented on the word haiver
Scots - to talk foolishly.
December 10, 2007