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Etymologies
- Abbreviation of shalln't (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I shan't forget Rodger's face when I told him the news.”
“We shan't ever hunger again, the beard spoke as the stomach below rumbled.”
“I ain't a child," says the last, "and I shan't be a woman till I'm twenty, but I'm past eight, I am.”
“I shan't bore you with all the statistics about how many species are going extinct every day.”
“I shan't print the entire official response I received, but George Orwell would have loved the first paragraph, which I hereby share with my readers:”
“(You know who you are: I shan't embarrass you further.)”
“Yes, do come right out into the old kitchen; I shan't make any stranger of you, she invited us pleasantly, after we had been properly received in the room appointed to formality.”
“And then you can give them a licking a-piece, if it's any satisfaction to you, and put them out by the back-door, and we shan't see any more of them, I fancy.”
“I've an idea that, thanks to you, we shan't have much trouble from them to-night! ”
“We shan't be lacking for entertainment by the sounds.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shan't’.
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
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Awesome Words, Part 2: More Common
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syllabled's list
Only the best.
shoulder, cauldron, silhouette, japes, choral, billow, gloom, ghouls, eighty, lilt, forgot, prayer and 27 more...
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Words I wish would come (back?) into ...
These are words that I find slightly old-fashioned. I confess to reading a lot of Austen and Trollope as of late, which puts me in the mood for this list. N.B. These words don't come directly fr...
jaunty, postprandial, bespoke, naif, quincunx, haberdashery, ingenue, shan't, scrivener, albeit, cheeky, epistolary and 26 more...
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Poetic Words
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archaic
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daves list 1
Not sure. Just trying to figure out how Wordie works!
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A casual observer might believe (inco...
...if the observer were to judge me by the words and phrases I use regularly.
good heavens!, shan't, shall, oh my stars and g..., dearie me!, might i trouble y..., beg pardon, oh glory, as i live and bre..., pshaw!
Tweets
Looking for tweets for shan't.
yarb My favourite bit is at the end: Zelda looks lonely... Jul 22, 2008
darqueau "We've got so many tchotchkes
we've pratically emptied the Louvre
In most of our palaces
there's hardly room to manoeuvre
I shan't go to Bali today
I must stay home and Hoovre
up the gold dust
That doesn't mean we're in love"
the Magnetic Fields, Zebra
plenty of good word playfulness going on here. Jul 22, 2008