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Old English
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Phrase
Hū mæġ þæt bēon?
- how can that be
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Lord's Ascension"
Þa cwæð Maria to ðam engle, "Hū mæġ þæt bēon þæt ic cild hæbbe, forðan ðe ic nanes weres ne bruce?- Then said Mary to the angel, "How can that be that I have a child, for I have known no man?
