Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
if .
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Examples
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June 10, 2008 at 6:26 pm wai dunt yoo taek ur kitteh tu deh shelr wif yoo tew lokking at teh kittehs and see yif derz wun hee warmz upto?
…then let the dough rise - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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When the lady of the castle hints that he should have asked for a kiss, Gawain says he couldn't possibly, "For that durst I do not, lest I devayed were:/If I were werned, I were wrang, iwysse, yif I profered."
A Fable of the Round Table Tom Shippey 2007
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You work by the piece you can make more if you want to and if yif yon't want to you can fall down on the job.
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And yif oni other onie cumen her onyenes, we willen and hoaten thæt alle ure treowe heom healden deadliche ifoan.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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And it was seid that yif the forseid prince hadde lyved too dayes longere than he dede, alle the
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Thei yive credence unto no thyng but yif thei see yt in a roll or chartir or heare a twentye minute talke yn a small room wyth questionez aftirwardes.
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How grym wolde the worlde be yif ther were no Robin Hood.
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Boece saith of erthely fame: "yif thou wolde make comparisoun to the endles spaces of eternyte, what thyng hastow by whiche thou mayest rejoisen thee of long lastynge of thy name?"
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My fadir sayeth that "yif ye see yt on a blog then it ys trewe."
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