weel
Britishadverb
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As my friend Christina put it in her excellent Arianna impression, "We weel leaf from Floshing at five in the mahrning, and that way, all the heepsters will be too hahngover to wake up."
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2011
"Tae mony kooks weel speel tha porridge an' splinterr tha spertle," sang Angus Daftie MacTourist.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of his early obiter dictions: "Wot, wich, were, wen. weel, etc. are absolutely incorrect; but the alternatives hwat, hwich, hwere, hwen, and hweel are equally incorrect."
From Time Magazine Archive
“I weel teach these hands to make mewsic. Mewsic, the language of angels. Angels who geeve happiness to all living tings. Tings like leetle girls. Si?”
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
The laird, finding his explanations went for nothing, at last said, "A weel, I suppose I'll get credit for it in heaven."
From Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories by F. W. Chambers
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