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  • phrase Scotland should not

Etymologies

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should +‎ nae

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Examples

  • Och, I shouldnae had that fifth Zambucca - not with battered cod.

    Archive 2008-01-01 DAVID BISHOP 2008

  • Och, I shouldnae had that fifth Zambucca - not with battered cod.

    Script: Mirror in the Bathroom DAVID BISHOP 2008

  • Och, I shouldnae had that fifth Zambucca - not with battered cod.

    Metaphorical Money in My Mouth Moment DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • They shouldnae have handed that tae a new teacher.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • More a matter of remindin 'those who live in glass houses that they shouldnae go lobbin' boulders aboot the place.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • More a matter of remindin 'those who live in glass houses that they shouldnae go lobbin' boulders aboot the place.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Och, well, I shouldnae be too hard on you, Hamish.

    Death of a Dentist Beaton, M. C. 1997

  • Alice asked curiously what a FEB was but the bartender said hurriedly he “shouldnae hae said that” and polished glasses furiously.

    Death of a Gossip Beaton, M. C. 1985

  • 'You shouldnae jest in sairious maitters,' she interrupted.

    St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • 'fuckin' doctors shouldnae be allowed tae gie them oot.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

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