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Would English-speaking life today be somewhat different had words like wuldor, scop, dryhten, hyge, and līc or “glory,” “poet-singer,” “lord,” “thought,” and “body” survived as well?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Would English-speaking life today be somewhat different had words like wuldor, scop, dryhten, hyge, and līc or “glory,” “poet-singer,” “lord,” “thought,” and “body” survived as well?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The concern here, is that this narrative gets so much play that it becomes self-fulfilling, i.e., after weeks of hearing how Obama can't win over the white working class (due to three or four irrelevant anecdotes that the press conflates into this hyge story, as they are currently doing), the white working class begins to believe it.
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John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008
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O mai here u gibs us a hyge openin for pateneted ICHC list an no one notice, the huyge manitee ob it!
ART - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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This was the biggest obsticale to overcome, a merchant sees this hyge jump in “clicks” but zero people refer to citysearch in that week. reply
The New Citysearch Launches in Beta, Goes Hyper-Social With Facebook Connect Erick Schonfeld 2005
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Þät þam gôdan wäs hreów on hreðre, hyge-sorga mæst:
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Se wäs on þam þreáte þreotteoða secg, se þäs orleges ôr onstealde, häft hyge-giômor, sceolde heán þonon
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Wäs him se man tô þon leóf, þät he þone breóst-wylm forberan ne mehte, ac him on hreðre hyge-bendum fäst
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Snyredon ätsomne, þâ secg wîsode under Heorotes hrôf; hyge-rôf eode, heard under helme, þät he on heoðe gestôd.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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