'appen
Britishadverb
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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
"It's what the actor manager chaps drink in London, I 'appen to know."
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
"Does there 'appen to be any place where I can get a rinse, 'Indenberg?" he enquired.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins
Did I 'appen to gaw of a hevenin, to looök at ma hinion patch?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. by Various
I say we got, anyw'y, eleven pounds of this stuff, and I 'appen to know that Bendemeer's fair crazy after it.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
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