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'appen

British  
/ ˈæpən /

adverb

  1. dialect See happen

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Far more deserving of recrimination is the illiterate dialogue inflicted on characters like Wiggins, the footman, forced to declare: “Cor blimey, I knew this was goin’ to ’appen.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2017

Oh, les pauvres Am�ricains I Eef zis 'appen to us, we would do avrysing een our power to disobey, even smuggling.

From Time Magazine Archive

I mind him bringin' his wife to it, maybe forty year sin', though I were just a lad at t' time, an' it'll be 'appen five year sin' she died.

From Windyridge by Riley, W.

And with each Age certain new things 'appen.'

From The Promise of Air by Blackwood, Algernon

"An' where did all this 'appen?" asked Bindle.

From Adventures of Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George